Gender and MBTI

I'll be interested to see the opinions. I am not familiar enough/don't retain descriptions of each of the functions enough to type people, but I keep hoping that ability will come to me... perhaps by osmosis after I've been here awhile.

 

Gender plays a role, but it is part of a larger puzzle.

 

Supposedly the different levels of estrogen and testosterone in a person's body will dictate how much they will act like their chosen gender. However, there are all kinds of exceptions to this. So it becomes part of a larger puzzle. It's sad when something proven and certain, suddenly becomes cancelled out by life experience.

[Edit] Has this ever even been gauged?

 

What interests me is how much the more dominant types (ESTJ, ESFJ etc.) sway gender statistics and stereotypes just by sheer numbers.

 

Who makes these types more "dominant?"

 

They are dominant simply because there are more of them than other types.

 

Yeah what I meant by that is that there are more of them than other types, poor choice of words. Although the ES_Js are very influential.

 

Do we know why there are so many more of them, so many less of us?

 

Probably has to do with the reptilian brain and instinct. I doubt highly that an animal taking the time to think about what to do, would survive well in the wild. Humans haven't held this rock in their grasp until the last quarter century. Perhaps N types simply couldn't flourish under those circumstances. You're all a virus!

More importantly most of the S types, act like a herd of sheep, refusing to think critically past their brainwashing. Makes me wonder.

 

Intuition doesn't necessarily mean introverted intuition. I rarely bother thinking through all of my actions, and I'm an Ne Dominant.

Seems pretty accurate nevertheless.

 

So N's are a virus? and S's are sheep?

Boo hiss!

SJs are numerous because the provide communities with stability, with their insistence on structure and tradition the provide the foundation and real world constructs of society, they may not envision or create them but they sure do maintain those institutions. SJs are very good at doing and valuing the day to day work that keeps or societies going.

Too many Ns and human societies would be in a constant state of change, without ever achieving the kind of stability to sustain any sort of quality of life. Too many SPs and nothing would ever get done with all the parties going on...

 

Hedonism fests are not Parties.

 

When I think S, I think action. When I see N, I see a function of the brain that has developed only recently in biological times. The two conflict with each other too much.

 

Not true. The N has been there for a very long time. Earliest human histories have people of intuition.

 

Nonsense, seeing the big picture is one of the things that sets us apart from animals and has helped us succeed, we all have N just some people prefer S.

In a tribal environment (in which our modern brains evolved) how do they conflict?