I spent a copious amount of time on MBTI and cognitive functions so I’m confident to say that most people are mistyped by online tests. For example, there’s a N > S bias, also MBTI extroversion is very different from social extroversion but the tests only ask for that.
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Which general population?
Whichever sample that 16personalities MBTI test company chose 
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I was going to post right after @HopeWaterfall posted the poll that I was gonna be shocked if we got more than 10% Es, but then I decided I didn’t want to bias people voting 
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I don’t know any that read books 
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I’ve had some extrovert friends who were very heavy readers
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Lol I would not have expected it to be THAT one sided. I wonder if a poll of the main site would be different.
I have extrovert reader friends, but none that use forums. To be fair, only one person I know IRL does.
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Interesting!
I took the test several years ago and got INFP - retook it last year and got INTP. I’m not quite sure what it all means, but from the replies I gather that P means you’re not very organised? untruuuuuue, i love planning, and tracking, and just generally having everything be nice and tidy.
The I, which is the only letter that I do understand, I can only agree with 
So in any case, I’m in one of the top 2 categories for this forum (i have found my people.)
I also find it strange that there are no extroverts, though to be fair, 29 voters don’t exactly represent the entire userbase.
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That’s just a small part of it, basically P/J describes whether you have a bias for perceiving extraversion (Ne-intuitive extraversion / Se-sensory extraversion) or judging extroversion (Te-‘thinking’ extroversion / Fe-‘feeling’ extroversion). By extraversion, it doesn’t mean social extroversion, but rather more like how you take in the external world, how you process external information.
Long essay incoming
Now I opened more unknown words so let me quickly describe each one:
judging (T/F) basically describes a function that serves to classify things into a set of rules/values which is either more rational (T) or more subjective (F). Te (thinking extraversion) is often connected with being very goal-oriented/efficiency-oriented, Fe is often connected to place high value on societal conformity.
If you have J, you have one of these somewhere with a greater priority according to the MBTI function theory. Since these place some importance on values and order, individuals might seem more organized.
Mind that neither of these functions describe inherently negative or positive traits. Everything is a balance of sorts and every person needs a bit of everything to be functioning and socializing well.
I find it hard to describe perceiving extraversion, basically Ne (intuitive extraversion) is perceiving the world in a kinda surreal way, extrapolating the information you have on your hands. Se on the other hand focuses more on tangible sensory information and seems more practically orientated.
Since Ne/Se users are more prone to be impressed than expressed, they can seem a bit more messy.
If you look at the complimenting intraverted functions (each trait stack is built kinda symmetrically) it makes more sense, but I don’t want to go even deeper, this is probably already super confusing.
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assembled the polls for whomever wants to check them out
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I was checking the old polls and wow, I’m literally the only person who said I am learning languages out of necessity 
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Dang, can’t believe we have this many.
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whoooooo that was very interesting, and led me down a Quora rabbit hole. It is still all very confusing to me, but thank you for the explanation! I had never heard of Ne-Se / Fe-Te etc before. I’ll keep reading up on it
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Or at least on average lately, hehe.
I was thinking about this the other day. Hope I binned the option choices reasonably (not like that other poll where I shamelessly underestimated the people here). For myself, I excluded textbooks, since I don’t really count them as “reading”.
How many books do you (usually) read concurrently?
- 1-3
- 4-6
- 7-10
- 11-20
- 20+
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For me this one depends a lot on how many book clubs I’m in at any particular time. I think my normal clubless average is two or three, but then book club books get added on top because the usual club pace means they are a long way from eating up all my reading time. Right now I have six in progress, of which four are club books – that would be the high end.
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I think I’m the outlier here. But yeah, between the books I’m reading in the languages I’m learning and the ones I read purely for enjoyment, it’s a lot. Actually I’m probably in the midst of reading more books in English than Korean usually, I just jump from book to book constantly and then go back and so on.
@bibliothecary save me please, I feel like you’ll be with me on this one
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That’s… Impressive… How do you divide your reading time between them?
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Define “read concurrently”… Like I have 11 on my I’m Reading list here, but 3 I haven’t progressed on for weeks, and 1 I haven’t actually started yet
Edit: occasionally I’ll prune my total down to 7-9 to eliminate choice paralysis… I think I even got it down to 5 once
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Randomly mostly. Unless it’s a book club book, then I try (and usually fail) to follow the schedule. Apart from that the only structure I get is for specific books that I read at specific times (mainly when I’m waiting for appointments). Otherwise just chaos.
I have periods where I’ll read this book or this book more, and I’ll alternate between various types of books as well being the main one I read (manga, novels, lightnovels…), all based on the fact that I just feel like reading this right now. Getting a little away from language learning, I enjoy fanfictions (there’s something comforting about reading about a familiar universe or familiar characters), and similarly I go through periods of reading more books pertaining to one universe, and will periodically cycle through a few universes, going back to those books I was reading previously.
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