Prismattic comments on Myers-Briggs / MLPTI personality-type conversion chart - Less Wrong
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This strongly suggests that "everyone you know" is a nonrandom sample of the population.
Putting the cognitive pieces aside, in the US extroverts heavily outnumber introverts, for starters.
Or it just seems that way, because the introverts stay at home.
doesn't seem internally consistent with
I'd be inclined to believe that
is true of everybody.
The numbers I've seen with reference to introvert/extrovert ratios are 1 introvert to every 3 extroverts in the US. Unfortunately I've seen it in several books that don't provide a direct reference for the ratio. It seems to be treated as common knowledge in that way. Anyone know where it came from?