Myers-Briggs Personality breakdown of ENWorld members
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The Goblin King
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Mine came up The Scientist. It makes sense that my favorite D&D character is basically Gandalf the Grey (but much younger).
KitanaVorr
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I can answer that at least from my personal experience.
I was drawn to the richness of the world of gaming when I was younger along with my female best friend. However, the overwhelmingly visual of half-naked insanely buxom rather over sex-ed caucasion female images is a HUGE and might I repeat HUGE turnoff for us to find gaming group. Why? The overwhelming female stereotypes bordered on sexual harrassment sometimes and made us uncomfortable and enforced the stereotype of gamers in general in our minds.
I'm still very uncomfortable gaming in person but places like enworld have offered me a place where I can indulge my favorite pastime of writing and still feel comfortable. And of course disabused me of the gamer stereotype.
InvaderSquoosh
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Another INTP and not surprising (Astronomy). I'm curious about the difference between Perceiving and Judging... would an INTP be a theorist and an INTJ be an experimentalist?
Serpentine
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INTP - slight preference for P, but in the presence of P-types I'll be a hardcore J. Someone's got to do all the planning and make sure the work gets done. Also, I seem to get stuck as DM even though I'd prefer to play, and I write out all my notes beforehand.
I've done a bit of research into the MBTI, and one of the reasons for skewed data on internet poll sites is that INFPs are especially disproportionately interested in personality-type testing. SJ and SP types generally don't place much value on the results. Isabel Myers was an INFP.
One point that I haven't seen yet is that as people age, they move from an extreme towards the middle, and sometimes switch from E to I or vice versa. Everyone has an introvert and an extrovert nature, but some people rely more heavily on one than the other. Same for the other categories.
And one of the possibilities for women not gaming as much as men is because most gamers are introduced to gaming through their friends, and INs are notorious for not having a large social circle with many opposite-gender relationships, although they do have deep friendships. The only other woman I played D&D with was an INFP. And most of my friends are guys.
I've done a bit of research into the MBTI, and one of the reasons for skewed data on internet poll sites is that INFPs are especially disproportionately interested in personality-type testing. SJ and SP types generally don't place much value on the results. Isabel Myers was an INFP.
One point that I haven't seen yet is that as people age, they move from an extreme towards the middle, and sometimes switch from E to I or vice versa. Everyone has an introvert and an extrovert nature, but some people rely more heavily on one than the other. Same for the other categories.
And one of the possibilities for women not gaming as much as men is because most gamers are introduced to gaming through their friends, and INs are notorious for not having a large social circle with many opposite-gender relationships, although they do have deep friendships. The only other woman I played D&D with was an INFP. And most of my friends are guys.
Dark Jezter
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KitanaVorr said:
And men aren't portrayed in a similar cheesecakey fashion?
Yes, there are lots of girls in chainmail bikinis, but there are also lots of men in fantasy/RPG artwork with bulging muscles who like to wear only loincloths, or at least go shirtless everywhere they go (even in the frozen north). But I'm a guy, and this dosen't offend me, nor has it made me reluctant to play RPGs or read fantasy novels.
InvaderSquoosh
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Serpentine, that's a good point: Personality can be situation dependant. I guess if one were borderline something, one could switch between the traits as desired.
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RangerWickett
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This is fun. I got
Extraverted (E) 57% Introverted (I) 43%
Intuitive (N) 82% Sensing (S) 18%
Feeling (F) 60% Thinking (T) 40%
Perceiving (P) 64% Judging (J) 36%
ENFP is, what, the Inspirer?
Extraverted (E) 57% Introverted (I) 43%
Intuitive (N) 82% Sensing (S) 18%
Feeling (F) 60% Thinking (T) 40%
Perceiving (P) 64% Judging (J) 36%
ENFP is, what, the Inspirer?
KitanaVorr
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Dark Jezter said:
this is getting totally off-topic for the thread...but oh well... ;p
Definitely there are cheese-cakey male figures around, but the female ones outnumber the male ones immensely. Just look at the Dragon magazine covers for example.
Also there's the difference between how males react to being portrayed as an object and the female reaction to it based on cultural experiences and historical precedence. The genders don't react the same at all.
I also agree with the "you tend to game with people you know" as affecting it too and in youth there usually isn't a whole lot of male-female friendships as the genders tend to stick together.
Back on topic....
One thing I'd like to see is the female to male ratio for each personality distribution. Also that would be interesting to see how it has changed as the world changes to accept women on more equal footing as men.
Is there a way to try another poll and get the results for that?
