Hmm. My husband (I/E-NTJ) is solidly in line with the Bitcoin personalities, but I (ESTJ) am definitely not… Perhaps I should be grateful that his Bitcoin enthusiasm was powerful enough to overcome my S-ing skepticism and stubbornness.
The more interesting finding here is not the INTJ skew but what it reveals about self-selection bias. Myers-Briggs has been debunked by personality psychologists for decades -- test-retest reliability is around 50%, meaning half the people who take it twice get a different type.
The fact that Bitcoiners cluster on INTJ probably tells us more about who is attracted to personality typology than who is attracted to Bitcoin. The real personality predictor for Bitcoin adoption is probably openness to experience (Big Five model) combined with low institutional trust -- neither of which MBTI measures.
Hmm. My husband (I/E-NTJ) is solidly in line with the Bitcoin personalities, but I (ESTJ) am definitely not… Perhaps I should be grateful that his Bitcoin enthusiasm was powerful enough to overcome my S-ing skepticism and stubbornness.
Well I think putting husbands in boxes is impolite.
Pretty cool. What are you?
Across multiple tests, I'm pretty consistently IN(F/T)J. The F/T seems to be pretty borderline.
I think I retested and shared it here recently. Let me see if I can find it.
I also just noticed the graph showing a decline in INTJ and a rise in INFJ. As someone who is halfway between the two, I wonder why that is....
The more interesting finding here is not the INTJ skew but what it reveals about self-selection bias. Myers-Briggs has been debunked by personality psychologists for decades -- test-retest reliability is around 50%, meaning half the people who take it twice get a different type.
The fact that Bitcoiners cluster on INTJ probably tells us more about who is attracted to personality typology than who is attracted to Bitcoin. The real personality predictor for Bitcoin adoption is probably openness to experience (Big Five model) combined with low institutional trust -- neither of which MBTI measures.