I’m the rarest personality type. NO, I am the rarest. But wait I’m the rarest. There’s
a bit of a discussion going around right now about which is the rarest personality type
and frank James just released a video alluding that INFJ is no longer the rarest personality
type. But is he wrong? If you don’t know who frank James is, definitely
check out his channel and ill leave a link in the description - he absolutely has a lot
of valuable information over there.
When he released his video, me being the super nerd that I am put everything on hold to investigate.
I always want to make sure I am providing the most accurate and up-to-date information
to you and today I am going over the results of my investigation. I’m going to answer
the questions is frank James wrong, and is INFJ still the rarest personality type. Let’s
get into it.
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In his video, he referenced a couple of websites that he got his information from. Keep in
mind, you can find all sorts of different numbers all over the place. Right now, go
to Google and search for "what are the percentages of the Myers Briggs personality types 2021?"
You’ll get all sorts of different results.
He referenced 2 sites specifically - Psychology Junkie and MBTI Manual Supplement, which are
both excellent sites and have metric tons of valuable information - and also claims
to have the most up-to-date data. Finding solid information can be daunting and challenging,
but based on the websites he referenced, here are the results.
This new data was derived from results from 2018 - whereas the old data is from around
the year 2000 according to the websites.
I am not going to go through all 16 personality types and where they all fall on the list,
however, I am going to highlight a few of the more interesting things I’ve found during
my investigation, and well obviously find out if INFJ remains at the top of the list.
Let's start with the four letters and the percentages associated with each paradox.
Of course, when I say paradox, I’m referring to anything with two alternatives.
So let's take a quick look at introverts vs. extroverts.
According to the new figures, 61.2 percent of people are introverts, while 38.8% are
extroverts. That's a 10.5 percent difference.
As a result, it's intriguing to discover that more people now identify as introverts than
they did 20 years ago.
The next one involves Intuition and sensing, or how we process information. Sensing entails
examining the facts as well as what is observable and improvable.
Intuition looks at the large picture, at the big ideas, and the overall picture of what's
going on.
This one has changed, although not as significantly as the others.
68.5 percent choose sensing, while 31.5 percent favor intuition, according to the new figures.
So I’m seeing a slight change toward more people favoring intuition, but the majority
still prefers sensing.
Then there's F or T, thinking or feeling, which determines how we make decisions.
Is it rational thinking or emotional and value-based feeling?
This is by far the largest swing in the new numbers.
Previously, 59.8% of people favored emotion, while 40.2 percent chose thinking.
This has shifted nearly 12 points, with 47.9% preferring feeling and 52.1 percent preferring
thinking. Previously, the results revealed that the
majority of people were feelers, but now the opposite is true.
The majority of people test as thinkers, which surprised me a little.
The last one is J or P, which stands for judging or perceiving.
The judges are a little more organized and well-prepared. The perceivers are a little
more free-spirited. With only a 1.6 percent shift over time, this one has remained basically
unchanged. Judgers make up 52.5 percent of the population,
while perceivers make up 47.5 percent.
So how does this translate to the actual MBTI personality types?
With the new data, the most common personality types didn’t have a huge shift or anything
crazy really happen. Most have moved up are down or swapped places with each other. There
is one interesting note, however - What I'm observing is that there has been a distinct
shift from SF types dominating the top places last time to ST types dominating this time.
And, of course, given what i talked about earlier where I saw a significant shift from
old numbers indicating that most people prefer emotion to new statistics indicating that
most people prefer thinking, this makes sense.
The first intuitive personality type, the ENFP, comes in at number five most common,
up from number seven, making up 7.5 percent of the population.
As a result, the ENFP is the most common intuitive personality type.
The next intuitive personality type appearing on the list is INFP becoming the seventh most
common personality type, accounting for 6.4 percent of the population.
The INFP has risen from ninth to seventh place on the list of personality types. Again, this
makes sense since we have seen that there was a slight shift in people favoring intuition
over sensing in this data.
On another interesting note, this doesn’t involve an intuitive type but, The ESFJ is
ranked eighth on the list, accounting for 6.3 percent of the population. This type has
dropped to the bottom of the list the most. It used to be the second most popular type,
but it has now dropped to eighth place, which is pretty shocking.
The next 2 spots didn’t really change all that much which brings us to the 6 most rare
personality types. And to no surprise, they are all Intuitive types.
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The INTP, which accounts for 4.5 percent of the population, is still number 11 on the
list.
However, The INTJ is at number 12 on this list.
With only 3.1 percent of the population, this has risen from number 14 on the list.
The ENTP is the 13th most common personality type, accounting for only 3% of the population.
So, if you've been paying attention, we're down to the final three.
The ENFJ, ENTJ, and INFJ are three personality types left.
Will the INFJ retain its title as the rarest personality type, or will another take its
place?
It's also worth noting that it makes no difference. It does not imply that one type is superior
to another. It simply implies that this is the number
of people who tested as this kind on this one particular test. As I said at the beginning
of the video, there are a ton of websites all claiming to have to most up-to-date data.
If you’re someone who just wants to brag about being the rarest personality or something
to that effect - I think you might be missing the whole point of what knowing and understanding
your personality really is supposed to be all about.
So take it for what it is: a ranking that is fluid and subject to change at any time.
The INFJ is ranked 14th in this particular poll, with a percentage of 2.9 percent.
Previously, it was the most uncommon personality type.
It had previously been estimated at 1.5 percent of the population.
So the distance between the poles has nearly doubled in the last 20 years or so.
So, The INFJ has been dethroned, but who did it?
We're down to our final two types now. The only ones remaining are ENTJ and ENFJ,
if you've been keeping track. So, which of those two personality types has
been identified as the most uncommon?
According to the Myers-Briggs Company's official poll from 2018, the ENTJ personality type
is the most uncommon, accounting for 1.8 percent of the population.
Interestingly, they were previously listed as 1.8 percent of the population in previous
data, but they were ranked 15th.
Of course, this leaves the ENFJ as the second rarest personality type, at number 15, down
from number 13 the previous time around.
So was Frank James wrong? Not according to this particular poll on this particular website.
However, it’s important to note that this data is subjective and ever-changing.
I believe being the rarest is a moniker that very few people actually care about but may
find interesting. Knowing that you are one of the rarest personality types can be an
advantage because then you know that you simply aren’t just a weirdo or an outcast and that
there are actually people like you out there.
So whether you’re the rarest or one of the rarest personalities is simply a matter of
how you say it - it shouldn’t have any real effect on your life or your success.
What do you think of this “new” data? Does it even matter? Let me know in the comments.
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