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- Why, hello there.
Welcome to my statistical research laboratory.
I don't know why I need a lab coat or even all of this
to talk about statistics,
but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
In one of my recent videos, I typed as an ISTJ.
And if you know anything about ISTJ's,
they like numbers. (fireball banging)
And I don't just mean the hit TV show from 15 yeas ago
called Numbers, starring the guy who played Bernard
in the Santa Claus movies.
I mean, actual factual
statistical data. (hands whipping)
So in this video I'm going to take you through
some of my research.
I've gone around the whole country and collected this data
just for this video,
talking about the percentage of each Myers-Briggs type
within the population and coming to some interesting
conclusions from that data.
For example, did you know that ENFPs
are the most common intuitive type?
Did you know that most people are J types?
It's just a couple of examples of stuff
that we'll be talking about in this video.
So what percentage of the population
is your personality type?
Stay tuned to find out.
But first, this video is sponsored by the hit TV show
Numbers (laughing) starring the guy
who played Bernard in the Santa Claus movies.
Okay, let me check my notes and let's look at a computer now
because that's how we do research.
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Welcome to the computer room and our mainframe.
Insane in the brain.
Insane in the mem, in the main, messed up by joke.
Insane in the mainframe.
It's not as funny now.
This computer here is the Personality Tracker 5,000.
So let me just log in and we'll see what the.
Let's log in and see what the different percentages
of each type are.
(computer beeping)
Why are you waking me up?
Oh, Hey there, Chip.
That's what the computer's name is.
I mean, I already said it was personality something 5,000,
but that Chip is his nickname.
Hey, chip.
I've been crunching so many numbers.
I may need to take a big file dump soon.
Okay, now, if you're wondering all of these statistics
are not just made up.
Well, they could be, but.
(laughing).
The statistics are actually from the official MBTI Handbook.
Of course, if you are a total newbie,
MBTI means Myers-Briggs type indicator.
That is what we're talking about when we're talking about
the 16 personalities.
And of course, if you need a quick introduction
to the 16 personalities and what all the letters mean,
check out this video in the card above my head.
Whoa, that card almost took off my head, man.
Let's just start by talking about the letters,
the letter dichotomies and which portion of the population
is more one or the other.
So let's start with the first letter, E versus I,
have any guesses as to which one is more prevalent
in the population?
Well, surprisingly introverts seem to edge out extroverts
by just a little bit.
Introverts make up 50.7% of the population,
whereas extroverts are 49.3.
Of course, everything is on a spectrum,
so a lot of these
(muffling)
a lot of these introverts and extroverts
are gonna be towards the middle
and be more like ambiverts.
The extremes are less common,
but that's not really accounted for here.
We're just looking at the letter dichotomy.
So now we move on to the S or N, sensing or intuition.
How do you perceive the world?
Sensing is looking at the facts and the details
and what can we prove,
and intuition is looking at the abstract concepts
and the overview and the big picture.
This one is much more lopsided.
Here we have 73.3% of the population prefer sensing,
whereas 26.7 prefer intuition.
That's really lopsided, like a butt.
Chip that is barely a joke, that barely qualifies.
Well, I thought it was funny.
(laughing)
Just shut up and let me do the video.
Frank, you are so mean to that fictional computer.
Okay, now let's move on to thinking or feeling.
Any guesses for which way the population will go?
Now, this one isn't as lopsided as sensing or intuition.
We have 40.2% of the population identifying as thinkers,
and then we have 59.8 identifying as feelers.
This is not too surprising, it's pretty balanced,
but I think feeling, making decisions based on emotions
and just like how we value stuff,
what we think is important,
it makes sense that a majority of the population
would be that way.
Then we move on to the J or P preference at the end.
Yeah, you already spoiled that one at the beginning.
(laughing)
Yes, I did chip.
It's called a teaser to get people to watch.
But yes, J or P, there are more J types,
but it's still pretty close to 50/50.
We have 54.1% of people are J types and 45.9% are P types.
Already, that's a lot of cool information, right, Chip?
Yeah, if by cool you mean boring.
Chip, I'm gonna pull the plug on you.
Chip, if you don't watch out,
I'm gonna karate chop you in the motherboard.
Anyway, in the next segment of the video,
we're gonna go through each of the 16 personalities
from the most common in the population to the least common,
the rarest personality type,
which you may have already heard what it is,
but there are some surprises along the way,
so, keep watching.
(upbeat music)
Okay, Chip, are you gonna, you gonna behave
in this part of the video?
You're a nerd.
You know, times were simpler when we just, you know,
used the pad and paper.
Okay, let's go through the personality types.
The most common personality type in the population
by percentage, we start off with the ISFJ
coming in at 13.8% of the population,
followed closely by ESFJs who make up 12.3%
of the population.
I mean, this is pretty interesting
because the two most common types, which make up 25%
of the population right there,
one in four people are gonna prefer introverted sensing
an extroverted feeling.
These types are all about being orderly, being practical,
but also making sure that everyone is feeling good.
I'll go on the record,
I'll say I'm a big fan of ISFJs and ESFJs.
I love 'em.
Can't get enough of 'em.
♪ Don't stop till you get enough ♪
Copyright! (fireball exploding)
Next up is a type that is not that dissimilar
from these first two, the ISTJ, coming in at 11.6.
Next up, the fourth most common type
might be a bit of a surprise.
It is the ISFP.
These types, of course, march to the beat of their own drum.
They're doing they own thing.
They following they heart.
But then after that, the fifth most common type,
not similar to the ISFP at all.
We have the ESTJ at 8.7% of the population.
Next, we have the ESFP with 8.5% of the population.
So you may have noticed so far,
we've had all sensing types in our list.
The top six most common types,
making up almost 64% of the population, all sensing types.
But now we are coming to our first intuitive type,
as I mentioned at the beginning of the video,
the ENFP, making up 8.1% of the population.
Uh, FJ.
What, Chip.
I think I caught a virus.
Now, how would you get a virus, Chip?
I went to a super spreader event.
It was a party at Ask Jeeves' house.
(laughing)
So stupid, doesn't even make sense.
Next is the ISTP at 5.4%.
And then after that, the INFP at 4.4%.
Coming in at number 10, we have the ESTP,
4.3% of the population.
Now I was surprised a bit by that that the ESTP overall
is less common than the INFP.
If you would ask me to guess beforehand,
I would've said ESTP definitely more common than probably
both the INFP and the ENFP, but it is not so.
(snickering)
You said, butt.
Nobody asked you, Chip.
Next at number 11, the INTP with 3.3% of the population.
And then the INTP's buddy the ENTP at 3.2%.
So now we're coming down to the final four.
These are the four least common types in terms of percentage
in the population.
And interestingly, these four types are the four types
that prefer to use introverted intuition
as their main way of perceiving the world.
My main way of perceiving the world is the internet,
like Netscape.
(exhaling)
Just ignore him, just don't don't say anything.
Okay, at number 13, we have the ENFJ at 2.5%.
After that, the INTJ at 2.1%.
And then rounding off the end,
the two least common types, we have the ENTJ at 1.8%,
and as many of you knew already, the INFJ at 1.5%.
It's interesting to look at all these statistics
because you see so many articles across the internet
making such a big deal about INFJ the rarest type.
Oh my gosh.
And these statistics show you
that they're like barely edging out the ENTJ,
by 0.3% to be the rarest type.
So, I don't know, whatever.
So don't get too caught up in the whole rarity thing.
It's not like you have one type at 10%
and then INFJ is after that at 1%.
It's pretty close to all those other ones at the bottom.
Now in the next video,
I'm not sure if it'll come out next week
or if it will be further in the future,
and for those of you watching in the future,
it will be either in the card above my head
or in the in-screen at the end or linked down below,
we're gonna look at these statistics,
but we're gonna look at men versus women,
which brings up a lot of interesting statistical data.
I'm glad this video is over.
I'm bored.
Chip, I'm about to turn you off
without hitting the shutdown button.
Oh, no, I can't handle that.
I'm on a Windows 95.
Yeah, you'll get what you deserve.
Anyway, be sure to check out another video right here,
or the whole playlist right here and join me next week
for another video all about the 16 personalities.
Thanks for watching and stay cool and attractive.
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