Re: Politics, economics, irrationality are real phenomena.

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 23 2003 - 22:58:53 MDT

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    At 01:30 PM 8/24/03 +1000, I wrote:

    >open-minded tolerance might be nearly as rare (INTJs comprise perhaps 5
    >percent of the population) as superior intelligence (the top few
    >percentiles of IQ measures).

    Oops. Not that many. According to the table at

    http://www.trytel.com/~jfalt/Tables/stats.html

    INTJ males are 3.3% of the population, 0.8% of the females. (If true, that
    could explain some aspects of this list.)

    Lawyers, it's claimed,

    http://www.altmanweil.com/about/articles/article.cfm?ArticleID=157

    are 13.1% INTJ, many more than in the population. Since elected politicians
    often start as lawyers... (But they're probably the other ones, by and large.)

    Damien Broderick



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