RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff
08-27-2013, 12:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-27-2013, 03:49 PM by Coldblooded.)
(08-27-2013, 09:50 AM)Ed Wrote: »I remember reading something about introverted and extroverted people and how their brains were wired differently and that caused people to behave differently but i'm lazy and i don't want to look it up. It also said something about the percentage of introverted vs extroverted being something like 20 to 80%, so there you go, you're part of another minority.
I'm not sure where exactly you heard that statistic, but I probably wouldn't want to trust anything else from that source in the future if I were you. The actual percentage is a lot closer to 50-50. (The Myers-Briggs website was the most reliable looking source I find, and it claims introverts as being 50.7% of the population to extroverts' mere 49.3%)
The problem of course, is that for people on the far end of the introvert bellcurve, (such as myself and probably a good number of other people on this site for instance) even the "moderate" introverts tend to look a lot like extroverts. Which is probably the same part of the population where most of the ~15-20% estimates come from.