Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Personality & Poker (From 2+2)

Recently someone else took up the Jungian & Poker gauntlet on Two Plus Two.

Once again, INTJ came out on top, even though it is the most rare personality type. Once again, I'm not sure how much of it is fudged results (everyone wanting to jump on the INTJ bandwagon), and how much of it is truly that we INTJ's are more prevalent online and in poker circles.

Here are some numbers if you are into that:

INTJ: 25 total of 82 (30.5%)
INTP: 10 of 82 (12.2%)
ENTP: 8 of 82 (9.8%)
ISTJ: 6 of 82 (7.3%)
ENTJ: 5 of 82 (6.1%)
ENFJ: 5 of 82 (6.1%)
ISTP: 4 of 82 (4.9%)
ENFP: 4 of 82 (4.9%)
INFJ: 3 of 82 (3.7%)
INFP: 3 of 82 (3.7%)
ISFP: 3 of 82 (3.7%)
ESFJ: 3 of 82 (3.7%)
ESTP: 2 of 82 (2.4%)
ISFJ: 1 of 82 (1.2%)
ESTJ: 1 of 82 (1.2%)
ESFP: 0 of 82 (0%)

FWIW, this time the original poll and post by a Two Plus Two psychologist stating that INT- personalities are more likely to be winning poker players was not mentioned, nor alluded to. His study was not cited in any of the original posts, and it has been about two years since his first interest in the subject.