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Hey guys, I have been around the scene for quite a while now. I picked up Starcraft with a few friends in 2001 and fell in love. I quickly dove into the scene, idolizing players such as Grrr, Legionnaire, GARIMTO, and IntoTheRain.
I have gone to quite a few offline events and met a good number of Starcraft players in person. Through most of my time in the community I have always had a suspicion that personality type influenced greatly on many things, including how much the game draws you, how much you are willing to devote to the game, as well as how quickly you improve.
Many of you are probably familiar with a Jung or Myers Briggs personality test, if not I recommend you take the test even if you are not interested in participating in the topic as it does give you some interesting insights.
What I am attempting here will be a study on personality type vs results in SC2. My initial hypothesis is that despite the strongest thinking types (INTP and INTJ), being two of the rarest personality types(roughly 2% of the population respectively), they will be quite strongly represented at the higher levels of Starcraft 2.
This is a study that I plan to use for the next piece I will be writing.
With that, I will give you the method I will be using for measurement. I am adding a series of polls, separated by league, and then grouped by Introverts or Extroverts.
Link to the test can be found here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Grand Master
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTP (37) 34% INTJ (31) 29% INFJ (13) 12% ISTJ (8) 7% ISTP (8) 7% INFP (5) 5% ISFP (4) 4% ISFJ (2) 2% 108 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTP (21) 31% ENTJ (16) 24% ENFP (11) 16% ESFP (8) 12% ENFJ (4) 6% ESFJ (3) 4% ESTP (3) 4% ESTJ (2) 3% 68 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Master
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (70) 37% INTP (38) 20% INFJ (28) 15% ISTJ (22) 12% ISTP (10) 5% INFP (9) 5% ISFJ (7) 4% ISFP (7) 4% 191 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (24) 30% ENTP (15) 19% ENFJ (12) 15% ENFP (9) 11% ESTJ (6) 8% ESFP (6) 8% ESTP (5) 6% ESFJ (3) 4% 80 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Diamond
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (47) 39% INTP (27) 22% ISTJ (15) 12% ISTP (9) 7% ISFP (8) 7% INFJ (7) 6% INFP (7) 6% ISFJ (2) 2% 122 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (13) 27% ENTP (10) 20% ENFJ (8) 16% ENFP (6) 12% ESFP (5) 10% ESTJ (3) 6% ESFJ (2) 4% ESTP (2) 4% 49 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Platinum
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (35) 41% INTP (13) 15% ISTJ (10) 12% INFP (8) 9% ISTP (7) 8% INFJ (6) 7% ISFP (4) 5% ISFJ (3) 3% 86 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (12) 40% ENTP (5) 17% ENFJ (4) 13% ESTP (3) 10% ENFP (2) 7% ESFP (2) 7% ESFJ (1) 3% ESTJ (1) 3% 30 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Gold
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (26) 42% INTP (13) 21% INFP (7) 11% ISTJ (5) 8% INFJ (4) 6% ISFJ (3) 5% ISTP (3) 5% ISFP (1) 2% 62 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (7) 28% ENFP (6) 24% ENFJ (3) 12% ESFP (3) 12% ENTP (2) 8% ESFJ (2) 8% ESTJ (1) 4% ESTP (1) 4% 25 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Silver
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (8) 40% INFP (5) 25% INTP (4) 20% ISTJ (2) 10% ISFP (1) 5% INFJ (0) 0% ISFJ (0) 0% ISTP (0) 0% 20 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENFJ (3) 33% ENTJ (2) 22% ENFP (2) 22% ENTP (1) 11% ESFJ (1) 11% ESTJ (0) 0% ESTP (0) 0% ESFP (0) 0% 9 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Bronze
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (7) 33% INTP (5) 24% ISFP (4) 19% ISTJ (2) 10% INFP (1) 5% ISFJ (1) 5% ISTP (1) 5% INFJ (0) 0% 21 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ESFJ (3) 38% ENTJ (2) 25% ENTP (1) 13% ENFP (1) 13% ESTP (1) 13% ENFJ (0) 0% ESTJ (0) 0% ESFP (0) 0% 8 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Optionally you can fill out the following questionnaire to give some more information on the info we collect.
Personality Type:
League:
Race:
Estimated total games:
Do you have any SC:BW experience:
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \
My next step will be continuing this topic on various gaming websites to see if it is a phenomenon within Starcraft or within Gaming entirely.
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Personality Type:INFJ
League:Masters
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: 20 games of -D games on iccup
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: + Show Spoiler +Since when does personality doesn't affect x :D
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Personality Type: GTFO
League: GM
Race: hardest race (terran)
Estimated total games: over 9000
BW experience: A+
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: 0wning n00bs with superior talent makes my lyfe way better than all urs
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This is some interesting information to be sure. I am still extremely interested to see the personality type disparity within the Starcraft scene as well (meaning the difference between personality and league as well as time played).
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I will post my response as well just for any curious minds.
Personality Type: INTP
League: Masters
Race: Protoss/Zerg
Estimated total games: 800 since release
Do you have any SC:BW experience: played for 10 years
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On October 18 2012 16:27 dream-_- wrote:This is some interesting information to be sure. I am still extremely interested to see the personality type disparity within the Starcraft scene as well (meaning the difference between personality and league as well as time played).
Did you not read the post I linked? That's exactly what was being done.
http://www.sc2persona.com/
Don't let me stop you from collecting more data, though. Just pointing out there's some you can already use.
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You are correct, I missed that potion of it, only saw the results by race and overall!
Edit - Extremely interesting, glad to see that someone has done this research for me already. Saves me some time in the next post I play to make.
Also if possible I would like to continue with the polling regardless if for no other reason than to confirm the results in the previous test (as both tests are run with a relatively small sample size).
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 3390
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes a little ;D
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Currently not at all ;D
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Damn I miss clicked: Platinum ISTP, but I clicked ISTJ....
EDIT:
Personality Type: ISTP
League: Platinum
Race: Random
Estimated total games: Ladder ~1200 / Custom ~1000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: 2 years ~ 200 games
Do you feel personality type effects: I like to go to my limits.
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All the I's are on teamliquid......... while the E's are outdoors not playing sc2.. 
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On October 18 2012 18:02 lazyitachi wrote:All the I's are on teamliquid......... while the E's are outdoors not playing sc2..
Could you explain this to me? What´s up with these I´s and E´s?
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I feel obliged to mention here that personality tests are just about the biggest bullshit mankind has ever invented. I've (sadly) been forced to use both Jung and MBTI, as well as a whole range of other systems. They mean absolutely nothing. At best, their only purpose is to have customers think about their own personality.
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INTx confirmed over and over again.
INTJ
Introvert(100%) iNtuitive(88%) iNtuitive Thinking(100%) Judging(1%)
You have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%)
Personality Type: INTx
League: Diamond
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 2500+
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Random
Estimated total games: 1v1? 2000 or so
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I enjoy the combined physical/mechanical challenge of SC2 and that literally any time I can compete against someone of my own skill level with the intent of improving
ENTJ
Extravert(44%) iNtuitive(75%) iNtuitive Thinking(25%) Judging(1%)
You have moderate preference of Extraversion over Introversion (44%)
You have distinctive preference of Intuition over Sensing (75%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (25%)
You have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%)
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Platinum
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 800
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why:
- I'm pretty sure one's personality type heavily affects one's decision-making skills overall in SCII, as more aggressive and outgoing people would opt for harass-type of play, as well as focus mostly on early to mid-game strategies, while the opposite would settle for full preparation, macro and defensive tactics in order to assure themselves of certain victory. Finding out that I'm an INFJ helped with realizing why I almost never stick to a single strategy and always improvise early on or mid-way.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 900
Do you have any SC:BW experience: no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: it does, i can tell from some of the pixels and from playing quite a few games of chess before. Seriously, I played chess for 13 years.
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I am INTP with 138 IQ and can't get out of gold. This can't be accurate.
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Personality Type: ISTJ
League: Master
Race: Z
Estimated total games: 6500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: No
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I can immediately tell you something you messed up on horribly. You put the polls AFTER stating your prediction. In terms of scientific validity, this tanks your test completely. You don't tell your test subjects what you think before the test, because this alters the way they will test.
I know you're not looking to do perfect science here, but at least put a little effort into it.
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Norway25712 Posts
Personality Type: INTP
League: Gold
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 2200 (mostly team games)
SC:BW experience: BGH. Lots of BGH. About 10 games as D+ on iccup recently, didn't play much.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why:
I don't think so. Maybe in that I don't like to read up and learn build orders, so I usually just wing it and rely on having better macro. I definitely think that things like decision-making and such affect one's play in SC2.
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What is the point of this thread?
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INTP
Diamond
Protoss
My personality is not aggressive but i play quite aggressively. So i dont think my personality effects my playstyle all that much.
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Germany767 Posts
ENFP Grandmaster
interesting...
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ISFJ Grandmaster
Am I the only one?
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 1v1: 700 | 2v2: 800
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No but a bit of WarCraft 3 experience.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Probably, my competitive nature and my will to always improve. I should play more 1v1 though :p
Funny to see that my first carrier suggestion is Computer Programming. I'm a computer programmer :D
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: GOLD
Race: ZERG
Estimated total games: 1200 (1v1 only)
Do you have any SC:BW experience: NO
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \
Not particularly, though I don't feel that this question can be accurately answered by the individual in question, sort of how a psychologist can't fix their own problems.
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Personality: INFP
League: Silver
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 130
No BW experience
At the present I don't feel affected by my personality type when I play. When I was learning the game and playing online for the first times I had a "shy" style though. I used to defend, I didn't scout, and usually I prefered a fast game because I thought i couldn't win a long one.
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Personality type: ISTJ
League: Platinum
Race: Terran
Estimated games: 750 (I am to understand this only involves 1v1's ladder? Otherwise add another 50 or so on top for 1v1 customs)
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Very very minimal. I played it a bit and I watched a few games, which allowed me to get a somewhat reasonable start in sc2. Although I started off in bronze, I knew what my play was supposed to look like so I knew in what ways to improve. (on the other hand, my play in sc:bw was heavily influenced by replays from sc2 lol).
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes, at the very least you could say that most
extroverted types won't last long in sc2's lone 1v1 gameplay. It takes a very focused person to reach the top, someone with strong emotions who rages a lot will definitely run into trouble.
That aside, I don't fully agree with my results. At the very least because it puts me at only 56% introversion. I feel much more introverted than that.
I believe this test gave me much closer results: http://100things.personality.visualdna.com/quizzes/eb4fcce5-46a0-55d3-9ec1-0d72ef18c50a/api-accounts/3bf2373f-bff7-588e-81e5-feb49f9743ea
Unfortunately I believe it won't serve your purpose as as far as I can remember it did not categorise your personality.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Master
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 4500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: No, I don't think so.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: platinum
Race: terran/random
Estimated total games: 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: very very little
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: it effects my experience because it determines how much i play, and the decision making and style of gameplay that i hate
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Master
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Playing since 1999 or 2000 Singleplayer and LANs, only started following the pro scene in 2008. Never played on iccup though.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Not that much. But I get really motivated when I lose, if that is even relevant.
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Personality Type: ISTJ
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 1500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Nope, dont want to,
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: It made me think more about strategy.
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Personality Type: ISFP
League: Grand Master
Race: terran
Estimated total games: 7500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: a little (custom games)
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience: can't really tell
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ISTJ
dont know what the words mean or stuff but i just answered the questions :-)
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Masters
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 4k+
Do you have any SC:BW experience: no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes. You can't play off of intuition with Terran, you have to have information. The way I think completely stops me from learning build orders simply because I always try to predict whats going on and it usually goes against whatever build order im doing at the moment.
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ESTP
Masters terran -- if I play I can sit around top 8 easily.
1500 games or so
No real BW; some BGH
Playstyle? Over aggressive and forceful.
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Personality Type: ISTP
League: Platinum
Race: ZERG
Estimated total games: ~1000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: NO
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why:It might, it might not. Not really sure as I haven't thought about it that much.
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INTJ
Introvert(44%) iNtuitive(50%) iNtuitive Thinking(12%) Judging(67%)
You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (44%)
You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (50%)
You have slight preference of Thinking over Feeling (12%)
You have distinctive preference of Judging over Perceiving (67%)
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Personality Type: ENFJ
League: Silver
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 177 on bnet
Do you have any SC:BW experience: I have played a bit of bw, but it was after sc2 was released and my peak rank was D
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I do not really understand the personalty types fully, but I do not really think it has that big of an effect on how well I play, that is probably caused by other factors like how much I play the game.
same personality type as lz! woot woot
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You are systematically biasing your own study by writing your hypothesis in the OP.
Personality Type: INTJ
League: Masters
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 600
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: No.
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Personality Type: ESTJ
League: Platinum
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Played heavily on and off, but was never any good.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I imagine it would. If a person is aggressive, theoretically they would play an aggressive style through harass or engaging with brute force constantly. Of course a person's personality could shape them to play the exact opposite of their personality type as well...
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Masters
Race: Zerg, Terran, Protoss. Played at masters level with all 3 races
Estimated total games: 1-1.5k
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Lots of custom games and lots of 2v2's. Few 1v1's
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes, I am aggressive and most of my Sc2 builds are pressure builds and the like. I like being active with my army and applying pressure. In real life my personality is to get things done and just do it.
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Personality Type: ISFP
League: Masters
Race: Terran
Estimated Total Games: 3050
SC:BW Experience: I only played campaign when I was 10
Do you feel personality type affects your SC2 experience and if so why: I believe that personality would affect a person's SC2 experience because if your personality doesn't cope well with failure you wont be improving and you would likely quit after a while.
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Personality Type: ESTP
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 700+
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \ No, none what so ever....
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Personality Type:ESTJ
league : platinum
race: terran
estimated total games : 3300~
do you any sc bw experience : no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: ofc it effects me , If I lose I feel bad and might get angry for losing and If I win I feel good and happy for winning , isnt it kinda obvious ?
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The sheer majority that is INTJ/ENTJ is pretty surprising...
Personality Type: ENTP
League: Diamond
Race: All (not random though)
Estimated total games: 500+
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I try to be a smartass when people BM me...
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The test is flawed IMO.
Strict yes/no answers don't cut it. For example, 'often' is a term that is subjective; the test needs more options saying things like "none of the above" and "sometimes". I say this because many questions I see I can't give straight yes/no answers to.
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Umm, I don't know if you plan to do any serious science out of this, but I hope you realise that you cannot use what you get out from this poll for any conclusions whatsoever. The selection bias and all the other factors messing up polls like these makes your data completely useless for actual science. Completely useless.
If you just want to do a fun little writeup without trying to reach any conclusions based on this poll, for all means, go ahead. 
INTP
Diamond
zerg
about 1000 I'd guess? almost only team games though.
have played sc1 since beta.
And what do you even mean with my personality type affecting my sc2 experience? >_>
Do you ask if the 4 letter combination I got from the test is directly causing my sc2 experience to be different? No of course not.
Do you ask me if my personality is affecting how I experience sc2? Yes, of course...
Do you ask if I believe that specific parts of my sc2 experience is related to some specific personality trait that I think is related to one of the letters in the MB test? I don't know. How could I know? And that would be a silly question to ask, as that is more or less the question you are trying to answer with the poll... It's like having a poll
1) Do you drink milk?
2) Are you overweight?
3) Do you feel that your weight is affected by your milk intake?
umm... "78% of milk drinkers does not believe that their weight is affected by drinking milk, thus proving that milk does not affect your weight!!!" >_>
Well, if you are just playing around, feel free to ignore my rant. 
But if you try to make ANY kind of REMOTELY scientific sounding conclusions from the results of this poll, you will have me after you! I am watching you. Consider this your first warning. > : )
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Personality Type: ENTP
League: Masters
Race: Random
Estimated total games: ~ 1500 (most are team games)
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Lots
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Quick thinking and adjusting on the fly is kind of useful i guess. I NEVER BM anyone, maybe because i'm introverted? Maybe i'm just a well mannered person (which seems pretty rare on BNet ^^) Don't know
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Pretty interesting actually.
The Judging and Perceiving traits seem to be the most common SC2 player. But then, base on the sort of time and effort and thought SC2 takes, I guess It's not really that surprising xD
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Myers-Briggs/Jung personality types are like horoscopes for pseudo-intellectuals, possibly worse, since at least horoscopes don't change on a weekly basis.
They tell you which pointless acronym you come under based on vague archetypes, it doesn't tell you anything truly about yourself, doesn't show intelligence, doesn't reflect Starcraft skill, and shouldn't be seen as anything but fun trivia. It's dumb to try and categorise yourself based on arbitrary measurements and portray it as real science.
I'm a Capricorn btw, that makes me knowledgable about these things.
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On October 21 2012 15:47 RockIronrod wrote:
Myers-Briggs/Jung personality types are like horoscopes for pseudo-intellectuals, possibly worse, since at least horoscopes don't change on a weekly basis.
They tell you which pointless acronym you come under based on vague archetypes, it doesn't tell you anything truly about yourself, doesn't show intelligence, doesn't reflect Starcraft skill, and shouldn't be seen as anything but fun trivia. It's dumb to try and categorise yourself based on arbitrary measurements and portray it as real science.
I'm a Capricorn btw, that makes me knowledgable about these things.
Ah come on now, it's all for fun.
No need to be a stick in the mud over it 
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 2000+
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes, played for around a year before release of SC2, but only managed D- on ICCUP
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: It certainly has a profound effect on the way I have come to improve at SC2, but it is not the only personality type that enables one to become better at SC2. Because of my personality type I am more inclined to focus on myself and be more at home, thus giving me more time to practice and neglect the distracting aspects of life. I still think though that numerous combinations of personality types can be conducive to SC2 experience, at least where we take intelligence and critical thinking into account.
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Platinum
Race: T/Z
Estimated total games: 1000 (~700 1v1, 300 2v2)
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Just campaign & custom-games
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: The willingness to improve and analyze yourself and to compete with others are essential. Other than that...no.
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I feel like by stating you hypothesis you are influencing your results a bit just looking at where the polls are at.
Type: ISTJ
League: Masters
Race: Zerg
Games: Over 4000
No SC:BW experience or experience with any RTS ever.
Effect of personality type: I have a couple friends who have played this game much longer than I have. Shortly after the release of sc2, I decided to drop WoW which had began to bore me and play sc2 (I have only ever played one game at a time for many years now). Although I started in bronze and far below my friends, because I continued to play consistently I have since season 1 advanced 5 leagues while my friends have both advanced 1. This is happening because how my friends play sc2 is they play a ladder game maybe one day then go play UMS maps or they just won't play because they have too much work or they will be busy with other games. Meanwhile I was playing three hours a day regardless of homework and more on weekends. A large part of my motivation came from the fact that I had entered SC2 with the plan of becoming the best player I could be. From the beginning this was my goal and it still is. I don't feel that any of my friends think of video games like that.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Master
Race: T
Estimated Total Games: 2,500
BW Experience: a bit
Personality Type Effects SC2: probably not
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Personality type: ENFP
League: Gold
Race: Z/Random
Estimated games: 600 or so
BW experience: casual
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: ENFP's have no trouble getting excited about a new project, the problem arises in ENFP's short attention span. This contributes to my already strong Ladder anxiety and prevents me from progressing past Gold League..
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Personality type: ESTP
League: --
Race: Random
Estimated games: 200
BW experience: involved
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes. I dislike SC2 and other games that impose a sense of isolation upon the player. This game is no exception.
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In a shocking new development, nerds have been discovered to play lots of video games 
e: Also thread poll results are not a good way to gather data for a study that you're going to use to write an article; you at least need to take the time to write a proper online survey if you plan to do this
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: platinum
Race: zerg
Estimated total games: 1000ish
Do you have any SC:BW experience: yes, c-
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: stupid question.
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Personality Type:ISTJ
League:Diamond(former master)
Race:Random
Estimated total games: in sc2 700, in BW/SC 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \Yes. Personality types influence what you spend your time on, thus how much time will be spent gaming.
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On October 19 2012 00:24 jordancurk wrote:
I am INTP with 138 IQ and can't get out of gold. This can't be accurate.
IQ tests only measure how well you can do IQ tests . Not to mention this is about personality not intelligence .
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Personality Type: ISTP
League: Master
Race: Z
Estimated total games: 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Nope
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yeah, I find it hilarious when people rage quit after I cheese them.
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Platinum
Race: T
Estimated total games: 600
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Very little
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes, I am less results oriented than most (I come from a poker background) and rarely ever get angry or upset.
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On October 22 2012 20:32 Shakattak wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2012 00:24 jordancurk wrote:
I am INTP with 138 IQ and can't get out of gold. This can't be accurate. IQ tests only measure how well you can do IQ tests . Not to mention this is about personality not intelligence .
I think 138 is a bit below the average teamliquid IQ they polled in that old thread. Maybe that's why he can't get out of gold? Too stupid. Or was it the penis size that determined the league? Not sure....
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 1.5k - 2k
Do you have any SC:BW experience: nope
i think beeing analytical may help, but then there is stephano ...
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Diamond (recently)
Race: Terran (previously random)
Estimated total games: 1000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: a lot, but never played against people before recently. D-
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes. I think that the analyzing side comes forth here.
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Platinum
Race: Random
Estimated total games: 3000, according to my profile (including whatever they count in that, multiplayer, etc.)
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Not any more than in affects any of my other experiences.
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Personality Type: ENTP
League: Platinum
Race: Terran, Zerg
Estimated total games: ~600
Do you have any SC:BW experience: only a few lans with friends
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: i think it increases one's ability to analyze and also get a more competitive mindset.
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Personality Type: INTP (Introvert(22%) iNtuitive(50%) iNtuitive Thinking(50%) Perceiving(33)%)
League: Master
Race: Protoss
Estimated Total Games: Around 1500 Including Customs, etc.
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Computer, N64, vs AI until I got into Professional BW (Right before Bisu became beast), then just played a ton of 1v1's with friends and internet.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes, some people get angry at the game, some are emotionless, and this may or may not effect game play. It depends on the individual. I know angry friends that play better when they are angry and others that play worse. Thinking is important as well, some allins require less thinking though. I guess it really just depends.
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \ yes, willingness and motivation to improve
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Personality Type: ESFP ---- Extravert(33%) Sensing(50%) Feeling(62%) Perceiving(22)%
League: Masters
Racerotoss
Estimated total games: like 7000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: 1 game rofl
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I act like a bitch if i lose. but i can't stand losing so i play like a million games in a row until i win. then i feel like a pro and brag
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Personality Type: ISTJ - Introvert(78%) Sensing(1%) Thinking(100%) Judging(44%)
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 1700
Do you have any SC:BW experience: A little; played casually for years and then got to D+ on ICCUP
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes, for obvious reasons
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Personality: ENTJ
League: Master
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 5000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: No
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Turns out INTJ people are attracted by Starcraft.
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Gonna read through others replies after this!
Personality Type: INFJ
League: Masters (Top)
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 5000+
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Tons of BGH, a little ICCUP before SC2, and was very good at Warcraft 3
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Very much so! The first thing that comes to mind is the emotional stress that I have to work to separate myself from when losing. Also agrivating is when my opponent plays in a way that I don't think is intelligent and I end up losing because of that. However, in the same breath; I'm quite ready to sit down and be honest with myself about my feelings and decipher what is going on aand correct this behavior and these ways of thinking and feeling. It's been a long work in process but I am really getting to a much more kind and mature place when it comes to the things that used to upset me in this game. Also, my propensity for understanding how others think and feel helps me out a ton with reading gameflow, their next move, even how they will micro things at times. I learn a bout them faster than they learn about me and usually stay ahead of the curve, especially in Best-ofs where the series runs longer and I feel more and more in their head. This is what makes me a great rock paper scissors player LOL.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Masters
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 3500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Very little ICCup, lots of random melee on B.Net. Read: awful.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes...I often try to force a build to work for a long even if it seems to be having problems, because I am generally confident in my understanding of most things.
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i love how INTJ and ISTJ are 2% of the population except for on internet forums where they are at least 65% of the total.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Gold
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 250
Do you have any SC:BW experience: few games vs my brother + turnament vods
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: seems it does- at least atm when i'm not that expirienced in playing sc2; i try to plan ahead, but i do not wrap things up in builds aside from the opening (i believe i need to get round with the game mechanics first and later on focus on builds)
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As a Hipster i should feel awesome being one of 2 who answered ISFJ at Platinum, because it's not mainstream ^^
Anyway:
Personality Type: ISFJ
League: Platinum
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: If i can count Teamgames at around 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: I do have a copy, but i never really played it.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I feel like i act after my prinicples and habits and in Starcraft 2 i only use 1 build order per Matchup
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Master (generally around rank 1)
Race: Terran/Zerg
Estimated total games: 3000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Limited
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Not sure how it would specifically affect my SC2 experience.
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note: stopped playing sc2 more than a year ago
Personality Type:ESTP
League:GM(top 200)
Race: Terran
Estimated total games:300
Do you have any SC:BW experience: C- iccup Terran
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \
Yes, the sensing dominant attribute drives me to study replay after replay, collecting all of the details in order to have a stock of information.
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Gold
Race: Toss
Estimated total games: 325
Do you have any SC:BW experience: I've played less than a dozen BW games (so "no")
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: The main effect I see, is that my scouting reads tend to feel very... "gut feeling-y" but I'm not sure if that's because I just started scouting a couple of months ago and don't quite understand what I'm observing enough to put it into words, if it's because I'm a female or if it's because of the "intuition/feeling" over "sensing/thinking." (That is an awful sentence, but I'm too tired to fix it, sorry!)
So... maybe?
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Personality Type: ESTJ
League: Masters
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Nothing of note
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: After taking that test, I could apply some of thsoe questions to SC2 i.e. do you think problems through or just look for a solution. I definitely just look for the solution and that applies to when i lose to certain strategies and I "watch the replay" to "see what I did wrong" a.k.a. just telling myself "oh i should have scouted faster" instead of analyzing the builds...
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Personality:INTP
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated Total Games: 800
BW experience: No
Effected by personality type: yes, because it can affect your playstyle, method of practice, etc.
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Personality: INTP
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated Total Games: ~1000
BW experience: No
Effected by personality type: I imagine so. Residing in your mind most of the time allows you to analyze games without watching replays, or so I've found.
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Master
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 3000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Very minimal (5-10 games against computer)
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes. If I lose often I'll get depressed, to some extent and play on tilt, it's a vicious cycle. On the otherhand, If I play well and have good win streaks I'll often become filled with self-confidence and happiness. I know, it's sad lol. I also feel as if my competitiveness keeps me motivated to get better at starcraft to no end.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 800
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I think it is very important. To be able to look at strategy and mechanics in an analytical way will take you to the next level. For example, sure this build may work, but why? How can I apply this concept to other strategies? Or, to elaborate, I'm dying to this a lot. What are all the possible solutions, pros and cons of each, and which seems to be optimal in its adaptability? Someone with a personality where they're tempted to go "fuck it, X race is gay and this player is gay for choosing this race" (think IdrA, but actually serious), will never make it far and will plateau very quickly.
Unforunately the OPs results seem totally non-conclusive because with the exception of the small data size groups (bronze-gold), every single category is INTJ by majority. So all we've learned is that most StarCraft 2 players are INTJ. Nevertheless, I look forward to the results!
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Personality: ISTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Terran
I believe I got INTJ before, but there is little to no preference for S/N apparently so close enough. I don't find it surprising I*T* are leading here. Definitely a thinking game, and introverted people tend to be more drawn to gaming to begin with. I assume starcraft just caters heavily to the thinking end of the gamer crowd.
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Platinum
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 200 league, 2000 custom
Do you have any SC:BW experience: 3 months?
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I believe that this greatly affects my sc2 experience. Most of these customs were actually games that I played while my friends were socializing and I didn't want to risk losing a ladder match for small interruptions, so that's being Introverted. I also tend to try out many new builds if possible and I like to shift up my gameplay often, like my iNtuitive side. I think about the situation and I theorycraft a lot to get a good grip on the build that I like to learn before I actually get hands on and test it out for myself, so that's Thinking. And last, I don't like judging people just cuz, so yeah.. I only get on tilt if they're bm and just annoy the crap out of me.
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Personality Type: ISFP
League:Diamond
Race:Terran
Estimated total games: 2953
Do you have any SC:BW experience:NO
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I think in some ways it does. I always tend to usually stick on one builds and try to just completely master that build. I'm usually afraid to try other builds and when it's time to improvise I tend to mess up. I also have a habit making poor decision due to my lack of intuition.
I guess ISFP are not the most strategical type. But I don't like being chained by my personality alone and will try to improve.
*Edit:Are INTP supposed to be the rarest? There seems to be a lot of them on here
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*Edit:Are INTP supposed to be the rarest? There seems to be a lot of them on here
The top two rarest (in order) are INFJ and INFP from what I've gathered throughout my time around many sources of literature pertaining to mbti as well as from my own estimate.
I'm really enjoying thinking about the diversity of types that have posted here and the different things about the game that appeal to them, and how we all get pulled in by the same unifying sick nerd baller game.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Gold (fuck yeah)
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: ~100 1v1, ~300 2v2, ~50 custom 1v1, ~50 3v3/4v4
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No, but I have experience in other competitive RTS titles (CoH, DoW, AoE)
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: It probably limits the amount of time I play, preferring to watch than play myself.
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United Kingdom14103 Posts
Type: ESTP
League: Gold/Plat
Race: Terran
Games: 200
Slight BW experience as a child
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Personality Type: ISTP
League:Master / Grandmaster
Race: Random
Estimated total games: 1500 (total I think)
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Played it since it got out, c+ at my peak i think
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I don't know the difference between these Personality type's so, no.
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Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: It probably limits the amount of time I play, preferring to watch than play myself.
Imba I spend way too much time watching lol.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Plat
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 50 1v1, 1.5k team
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \It effects how much time and effort you are willing to put into something, this could be related to practice/ play time for SC, watching vods, live streams etc
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Master
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Maybe about 100 games
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: No
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Personality Type: ESFP
League: Diamond
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 1500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No but wc3
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Well the ESF parts where all only slightly favoured, the Perceiving part was at 44%. I think that might be the reason I don't rage or get too excited over my games which I consider a good thing. I just look at the things and try to improve my own play without judging my opponents as cheesy, bad or lucky.
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Diamond
Race: Random
Estimated total games: 1800
Do you have any SC:BW experience: 1 year of playing
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I play rather intuitively and try things out instead of theorycrafting.
I was amazed to recognize myself in the text on that page... a little frightening though, what an educated person can find out my asking only 72 questions.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Platinum
Race: Z
Estimated total games: 3000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: A little. After SC2 though
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: This really intrigues me! 0o I actually think it does in my way of thinking. It's really interesting that certain types exist in SC2 so much.
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Russian Federation117 Posts
Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Master
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 1000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: some casual experience
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: For sure it has some effect. Being organized and methodical are definitely more benefitial than being chaotic and without any method.
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Personality Type: INFP
League: Master
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 1200
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Some casual exp back when i was a youngster. LAN parties with friends, etc..
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Not really..
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Personality Type: ENFJ
League: Gold
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 202
Do you have any SC:BW experience: very very little
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Definitely. I used to be INTJ 3-4 months ago and I barely played or enjoyed the game (outside of spectating that is) but after going through some personal shi... stuff that made me rethink a lot and definitely changed me. And now I play the game a lot more regularly and actually enjoy it.
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United States297 Posts
Personality Type:ENFJ
League:Master
Race: Toss
Estimated total games:over 9000 :D if we add BW games
Do you have any SC:BW experience: since 2000
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: No, the only thing that effects my SC2 skills and experience is work and social life since i hardly have time to play nowadays.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Master/Gm
Race: the hardest (Terran)
Estimated Total Games: over 10k
Do you have any SC:BW experience: maybe about 1k games
Do you have any Warcraft 3 Experience: more than 30k games, consistently being 40+ level with many accounts
Do you feel your personality type affects your SC2 Experience: Anybody playing Terran at diamond level and above is displaying commendable resistance to frustration, and can obviously endure severe social/racial inequalities.
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Personality type : INFJ (Introvert(33%) iNtuitive(75%) iNtuitive Feeling(62%) Judging(33%)
League : Master
Race : Zerg
Estimated total games : 2k, 500 in 1v1
Do you have any SC:BW experience : yes
Do you have any WC3 Experience : Yes, lvl 45 1v1 back in the days before WoW
Do you feel your personality type affect your SC2 experience : no, with zerg I feel like a mecanical player while in life I'm more a testing / creating type of guy who doesn't like to stick to specific "build" but love to test by myself (and I also have a hard time accepting the authority of others, which explains why I test by myself). But on the other side I could say yes as I don't like cheese, and I never do it, because I hate people who play ladder in order to win. I play 1vs1 to test myself, a clash of skills, something cheesy games can't gives. I also always felt that I had my own groove at engaging, and have a hard time playing with a mate because I engage and disengage a fight when I feel I need to (in opposition to timing attacks).
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Personality Type: INTJ(Introvert(78%) iNtuitive(62%) iNtuitive Thinking(62%) Judging(33%))
League: Platinum
Race: Random
Estimated total games: 3000 overall, 1000 1v1
Do you have any SC:BW experience: just fun maps
Do you have any WC3:TFT experience: 2000 games: lots of 2v2/3v3, some 1v1,
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: yes / i'm always trying out new builds, without having really perfected any of them, so everything i do tends to be executed a bit sloppily, also playing only one race got boring after awhile so i started playing random. 2 reasons why i'm only in platinum, i guess, but i'm having fun playing that way and surprising my opponents with unorthodox plays
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Gold
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 750
Do you have any SC:BW experience: little
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Not really.
NOTE: I voted in Grand Master accidentally. Should be Gold. Sorry.
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The problem with your hypothesis that INTP and INTJ's will be strongly represented in the higher levels of sc2 is that they already make up a hugely disproportionate number of TL users (going by a past thread that asked people which of the 16 types they were).
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Personlity type: ENFP
League: GM
Race: Protoss
Total Games: Atleast 10.000
Do you have BW experience: A little bit, but not online, played wc3 though.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why:
I don´t know Although i read ENFP types are emotional and enthusiastic, which in my case can be translated to "raging" and enthusiastic about the game and becoming better at it.
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
Personality Type: INTP
League: Platinum
Race: T
Estimated Total Games: 800
Do you have any SC:BW experience: I play that every day! Watch me play on my stream @ twitch.tv/comradexkcd
Do you feel personality type affects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Not really.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Platinum
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: ~2200
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Just the campaign (played after completing sc2 campaign)
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: no
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Gold
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: over 300
Do you have any SC:BW experience: I've only been playing SC II for 2 seasons. Before that was FPS games (cod/halo/bf)
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I think it CAN affect how ppl play and why. I'd have to say I'm not really one to complain about whatever 'OP train' everyone is riding, but I'd like to find out why its working for that race and how to beat it. Complaining helps no one lol. I don't express feelings very well so I'm not one to QQ
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Personality Type: ENTP
League: Gold
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 100
BW experience: 0
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Winning makes me want to play more...
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Personality Type: ESTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 500
BW experience: 0
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: When I lose I want to improve so yes.
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Personality type: ESFP
League: Bronze (in my defense, I have a 300+ bonus pool).
Race: Z
Total games: 50?
Do you have any Brood War experience: No
Do you feel personality types affects your Starcraft 2 experience and if so, why: Absolutely, I personally am afraid of failure, so ladder anxiety affects me a lot, yet when I actually lose it isn't that upsetting. I have a hard time evaluating where I went wrong when I lose games, and when I get into long macro games I get nervous about my opponent out-deathballing me (ironic cuz I have brood/infestor/ling and normally do just fine). Then I look at guys like Stephano, who are just 100% sure they will always win no matter what. I don't have anything productive to offer about why this is the case, but maybe someone good with psych could make a case.
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Personality Type: ENTP
League:master
Race:terran and zerg
Estimated total games: 1500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: BGH and barely being able to beat the AI without camping.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: very little.
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Personality Type:
League: Platnium
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 500?
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Nope
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: i tend to play passive and reactionary and don't do upfront aggression unless it's necessary or i know it will succeed
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 300
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I would say personality types influence your style of play, approach to the game, and how you deal in pressured situations. Analyzing and comprehending your weaknesses and accepting it is they key to learning, and I think being able to do as such will allow you to perform better on the long run, even if you start slow.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Platinum
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: over 900
Do you have any SC:BW experience: I only played the campaign.
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes. Your personality type decides your style of play and the way you deal with losses.
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Personality Type: ISFP
League: Master
Race: Zerg (but I have played all three races as master at one point or another)
Estimated total games: 6000+
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Nope
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Well, apparently the thinking types dominate the higher leagues, so it would appear. I'd assume "thinking" types probably analyze their loses and improve much quicker. "Feeling" types can be prone to frusturation and tilt easier, maybe? I know I tilt a lot so thats why I have such a high game count relative to league :/
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Is INTJ really that rare? Cause I got that and it would describe at least 20 people that I know
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On October 19 2012 00:41 Acritter wrote:
I can immediately tell you something you messed up on horribly. You put the polls AFTER stating your prediction. In terms of scientific validity, this tanks your test completely. You don't tell your test subjects what you think before the test, because this alters the way they will test.
I know you're not looking to do perfect science here, but at least put a little effort into it.
This guy pretty much nails it. You can't be telling your subjects what you want or they may change their answer, or in this case only answer, to make you happy. Another thing I might add is that very bright psychologists have historically struggled with things such as a personality test. There are somewhat unsettling issues with the concept as a personality in general. A person regarded as "moral" will oftentimes only be moral in certain situations and immoral in others. E.g. Won't roll through stop signs but will jay walk, won't steal from shops but will cheat on taxes.
All encompassing descriptors are rarely accurate when you take into account that people behave very different depending on the situation. So when you say a person is introverted or extroverted you may not be describing them accurately at all. A fantastic public speaker may be a horrible conversationalist one on one or in a small group or a person who is very boring initially may be very funny and charming the second or third time you meet with them. Even when a person considers them self as extro or introverted another person who is close to them may not think that at all.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Silver
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 700
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: For me, not really. I don't get to play that often, as high school is keeping me busy, so when I do play I don't think my personality manifests itself ingame. I also don't have a problem hitting the Find Match button, even though it seems like introverts might.
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Personality Type: ENFJ
League: Diamond
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: SC:BW N64
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Not really, no.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 1200
Do you have any SC:BW experience: ICCUP D- rank
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yes, because I tend to analyse my games incessantly after each win and loss to see what can be improved.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Masters
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 4,500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why:
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Personality Type: INTJ
League:Diamond
Race erg
Estimated total games: 2500
Do you have any SC:BW experience:no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: yes, quicker thinking is required, much more than a different genre of game, for example lol.
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On November 02 2012 10:14 PlanitDuck wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2012 00:41 Acritter wrote:
I can immediately tell you something you messed up on horribly. You put the polls AFTER stating your prediction. In terms of scientific validity, this tanks your test completely. You don't tell your test subjects what you think before the test, because this alters the way they will test.
I know you're not looking to do perfect science here, but at least put a little effort into it. This guy pretty much nails it. You can't be telling your subjects what you want or they may change their answer, or in this case only answer, to make you happy. Another thing I might add is that very bright psychologists have historically struggled with things such as a personality test. There are somewhat unsettling issues with the concept as a personality in general. A person regarded as "moral" will oftentimes only be moral in certain situations and immoral in others. E.g. Won't roll through stop signs but will jay walk, won't steal from shops but will cheat on taxes. All encompassing descriptors are rarely accurate when you take into account that people behave very different depending on the situation. So when you say a person is introverted or extroverted you may not be describing them accurately at all. A fantastic public speaker may be a horrible conversationalist one on one or in a small group or a person who is very boring initially may be very funny and charming the second or third time you meet with them. Even when a person considers them self as extro or introverted another person who is close to them may not think that at all.
Agreed, this whole thing is a giant self-fulfilling prophesy. Especially by saying that the INTP and INTJ are the strongest thinking types, you are discouraging anyone from admitting they are anything else and encouraging them to identify with one of the two types listed.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 750~
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes, my entire life
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I play zerg because of BW where you could do a lot of cool aggression/micro and tech switch really naturally, which I think the enjoyment of that is a product of the fact that I'm a relatively aggressive person. Though INTJ obviously has nothing to do with aggression, so yes to personality, no to personality 'type'.
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ISTP
Master
Protoss
400 games
No
Yes, i practice less than I should. I also go off spontaneity to win a match over reciting carefully planned build orders -- i prefer aggression, as I believe leading the game's tempo lets you have more control over the outcome.
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Gold
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 935
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Almost non-existent as I toyed with it after I played SC2
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I don't think it has that much of an effect. I'm sure it has some as far as motivation to play, but I think anyone could sit down and improve at SC2. I think it's more will-power than it is personality and it's just something that anyone can buckle down and do if they put their minds to it.
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Personality Type: ESTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: ~5000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: i still get really pissed when i lose games, which is annoying.. :/
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It's really interesting to me to see that many INTJs at masters, but for them to be evened out with INTPs at grandmasters. I wonder if there is something to it. And something about the lowering count of INFJs makes me want to work even more to be one that finally does achieve it :D I'm at top masters now.
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Necro, but seriously i dont think this post had enough replies to take those results into any serious consideration.
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Personality Type: ESFP
League: Master
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: ~3000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: no
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Personality Type: ENTP
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: ~2000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: mostly single player and lanning with friends
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Type: INFJ
League: Diamond
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 1000?
SC:BW Experience: I laddered on iCCUP (although not very well)
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I'm less likely to get angry at people, rather just myself so I never rage at people, just gg and leave.
EDIT: Woah didn't realise this thread was from last year.
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Keep in mind any internet polls tend to be N-favored, because S types prefer to "just do it" not discuss it online. Most progamers are for sure Sensors (top group is ISFP (eg: Flash, Bisu); but also ISTP (eg: Jaedong)). N-progamers are rare and really stand out from the others. Examples: Socke-INTJ and TLO-INTP. /none of these types are confirmed, just my view!/
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Personality Type: ENFP
League: Top masters
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: ~5000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: nothing worthy of note
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yup, but I really couldn't say how. I guess I'm kind of a lunatic..?
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On February 07 2013 20:45 figq wrote:
Keep in mind any internet polls tend to be N-favored, because S types prefer to "just do it" not discuss it online. Most progamers are for sure Sensors (top group is ISFP (eg: Flash, Bisu); but also ISTP (eg: Jaedong)). N-progamers are rare and really stand out from the others. Examples: Socke-INTJ and TLO-INTP. /none of these types are confirmed, just my view!/
pretty much what I was going to post. pretty useless necro imo, basically going to see an internet based grouping as expected. not very interesting.
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I got ISFP, and all I can determine is that a lot of us don't play Starcraft or are like me and only ladder once in a blue moon.
Can't wait for unranked ladder in HotS
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When I click "score it", the page gets stuck and doesn't show me any result.
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Personality Type: ISFP
League: I don't actually play on BN. Is Bronze the lowest you can go? I think I'd be diarrhea brown or something like that
Race: usually Terran
Estimated total games: 20-ish
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes, but mostly 1-2 human players vs CPU
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Yep. I am more interested in goofing off and doing weird things than winning, and in reading about top players than actually playing.
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That's BS. Why would you tell your expected result before the experience? Why would you show to your subjects which types are the rarest and thus automatically the most famous? I mean like comon I am obvioulsy part of 2% of the population, who doesn't ? :D.
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On February 13 2013 08:41 phalanx wrote:
That's BS. Why would you tell your expected result before the experience? Why would you show to your subjects which types are the rarest and thus automatically the most famous? I mean like comon I am obvioulsy part of 2% of the population, who doesn't ? :D.
Actually, that's a good point. I've seen a few of these personality polls and they are often skewed by "revealing the right answer" first. It's probably a combination of people trying to answer the test so they get Flash/Bisu, and people who don't get Flash/Bisu feeling like pond scum and shutting up.
Can we say it again? THERE IS NO BEST TYPE. I wish I were an E instead of an I. We don't always get what we want in life. If you're an ENTJ and therefore the polar opposite of Flash (or what we think he is), so what. Wear your anti-Flash badge proudly. A world with nothing but Flash clones would be insanely boring.
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INFJ (but only the N was a strong preference)
The test is silly pseudoscience though. :p
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Personality Type: INTP
League: Master
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 2500
Do you have any Sc:BW experience: Yes
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: It definetly, does. The way you feel after winning or losing has a direct impact on your experience in the game. The ability to express your emotions and understand how it may impact others is significant in a game where there is constant BM, and name calling at other people.
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ESFJ for Bronze
Extravert(1%) Sensing(12%) Feeling(25%) Judging(44%)
You have marginal or no preference of Extraversion over Introversion (1%)
You have slight preference of Sensing over Intuition (12%)
You have moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking (25%)
You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (44%)
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The problem with your hypothesis, and the preliminary results seems to confirm this, is that instead of reflecting different leagues, the data will simply reflect the fact that certain personality types are predisposed towards gaming (and strategy gaming especially). While INTJ may be 2% of the general population, I can assure you that the numbers for a gaming community will be quite different. Without knowing these base population numbers, inference about the relationships between league and personality type is useless.
And this critique is just about the hypothesis, not going in to the numerous design flaws that would create error even if the hypothesis was valid.
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This thread is old but we need to keep collecting this data. I hope that if you're reading this, you'll participate in the poll! It is the single best resource there is for understanding what mbti types are the most drawn to or the most adept at this game - whatever it is that will be derived from the data. I am actually considering trying to get pro gamers to take the tests and then create a nice post introducing the community to these players by their type, or visa versa. Additionally, I'm really interested in attempting to see if something can be noticed about personality type and what we observe as being a characteristic approach to the game. I think that we should be able to, and that that would be really interesting!
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Wow, necrobump much?. Still, I'll vote, even thought personality types are bullshit
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I think a lot of StarCraft players are INTJ, i don't think the personality type statistically significantly affects skill to be honest.
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On November 17 2014 13:29 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Wow, necrobump much?. Still, I'll vote, even thought personality types are bullshit
The online tests operate on a false notion of how the mbti works, and therefore their results are suspect in the extreme.
On the reality of it all, I have to say that prima facie, it seems extremely unlikely that the whole horizon of human character can be synthesised and categorised into sixteen archetypes. I can only say that pragmatically, my knowledge of mbti theory has given me extensive insight into people, both those whom I have known for a long time, and people whom I have just met.
I have actually been testing the system for several years. Sometimes when I meet a new person, I would attempt to divine their introverted and repressed traits by extrapolating their more active and visible ones in accordance with the mbti system, and I have to conclude that the accuracy has been too good for me to dismiss it outright. There is something to the system, but I am not sure what.
I think a lot of StarCraft players are INTJ, i don't think the personality type statistically significantly affects skill to be honest.
The clash of types can give valuable insights into the arguments which break out in the general forum, which is temperamentally, if not demographically, dominated by INTJs. One characteristic problem with INTJs is that they tend to mistake sarcasm for wit.
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