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This is something I noticed when browsing through the MBTI gender distribution.

I always noticed that more girls are Fs and more guys are Ts, but I was surprised that when you actually look at every single type, if it´s an F type, its always more prevalent in females and types including T is always more prevalent in males. I didn´t notice any other correlation like that, only in the T/F prefference.

(Wanted to add a link to a graph but I don´t have enough posts so if you want to see for yourself, look up any MBTI gender distribution).

These numbers are from the one I used as a refference.

Females
Thinking: 24.5%
Feeling: 75.5%

Males
Thinking: 56.5%
Feeling: 43.5%

The difference in Thinking isn´t that big but look at the Feeling.

Any idea why is that? If you´re born with your type, does it mean it could be genetic, linked with the gender? If you´re not born with your type, could the way you were raised and gender stereotypes have a role? I´m interested in opinions.
 
#3 ·
@Luminis

Well judging by this:
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It also seems that females are more likely to be Extroverted, whereas males Introverted.
Females are more likely to be Perceiving, whereas males Judging.
Females are less likely to be NTJ, whereas males NFJ.

Perhaps there is no deeper meaning to this, it just might be a coincidence.
But what I can say is that, SJs are super common, too common perhaps.

Anyways if you looked up for the job types ISTJs and ISFJs are more likely to have, then it would make sense females being more ISFJs and males ISTJs. And I'm sure most of those people who tests as ISJs were because of what job they had/ that their job made them more like that.
 
#6 ·
@Luminis
lmao,
Dude the numbers are exactly the same, I just divided them by Thinking and Feeling, not by Male and Female
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What the chart says--

Males:

T 55-67% 56.5%
F 33-45% 43.5%

Females:

T 24-35% 24.5%
F 65-76% 75.5%

What you wrote--

Males:

T 56.5%
F 24.5%

Females:

T 43.5%
F 75.5%

i.e. If you can't see the mistake, you mixed up males' F with females' T.

Anyways, you've already spotted your own mistake so.

Btw males' T/F ratio seems fine.
Just the females' T/F ratio that's a bit uneven.

Title should be: Why are females more F type to T type.
Since males are even.
 
Discussion starter · #7 ·
From the source I used:

Males
Introversion: 54,1%
Extroversion: 45,9%

Sensing: 71,8%
Intuition: 28,2%

Thinking: 56,5%
Feeling: 43,5%

Judging: 52,1%
Perceiving: 47,9%


Females
Introversion: 47,4%
Extroversion: 52,6%

Sensing: 74,9%
Intruition: 25,1%

Thinking: 24,5%
Feeling: 75,5%

Judging: 56,1%
Perceiving: 43,9%
 
#10 ·
It's interesting, since in my group of friends and including myself, we have an even distribution of girls with Fs and Ts, whereas I only have two male friends that are Fs. The rest of them are Ts (seven guy friends all together, and four girls.)
 
#11 ·
Eventive said:
Evolution. Basically nature figured out that shit gets done if you have a decent amount of Ts. Add some female Fs and men have a reason not to be gay.
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i disagree with this reasoning :tongue: , I think a big part of it is society norms shaping how we grow up, what we aspire to be, what the people around us expect us to be, etc, I feel there is ALOT more nurture than nature when it comes to F vs T or just moods/dispositions
 
#12 ·
Teal said:
i disagree with this reasoning :tongue: , I think a big part of it is society norms shaping how we grow up, what we aspire to be, what the people around us expect us to be, etc, I feel there is ALOT more nurture than nature when it comes to F vs T or just moods/dispositions
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He was trolling btw.
 
#14 · (Edited)
Why are more males Ts and females Fs?

I'm going to guess. Evolutionary speaking, women nurture both offspring and family. This requires immediate valuation of people. Hence feeling. Men need to get out there and compete for resources. Hence thinking.

This doesn't occur 100 percent. That's why the stats show as they are.

Speaking of "getting out there" my stats are roughly the same but not exactly. There is more than one source for them.

BTW this doesn't seem to be a nature or nurture issue. It's that way regardless.
 
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BigApplePi said:
Why are more males Ts and females Fs?

I'm going to guess. Evolutionary speaking, women nurture both offspring and family. This requires immediate valuation of people. Hence feeling. Men need to get out there and compete for resources. Hence thinking.

This doesn't occur 100 percent. That's why the stats show as they are.

Speaking of "getting out there" my stats are roughly the same but not exactly. There is more than one source for them.

BTW this doesn't seem to be a nature or nurture issue. It's that way regardless.
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That made me think, would be Sp instinct women mostly F and Sp men mostly T? That's what self presservation survivance logic seems to make us think. The natural Sp who prevailed over other instincts seemed to be the natural gender role proving. If you consider the other instincts, they often become out of the attachments and stereotypes(Sx the most, concretely), seems like Sp/So was the default survivance and role writing configuration, so, it could make sense that often Sx/So are the most nature role breakers.
 
#17 ·
Sve said:
That made me think, would be Sp instinct women mostly F and Sp men mostly T? That's what self presservation survivance logic seems to make us think. The natural Sp who prevailed over other instincts seemed to be the natural gender role proving. If you consider the other instincts, they often become out of the attachments and stereotypes(Sx the most, concretely), seems like Sp/So was the default survivance and role writing configuration, so, it could make sense that often Sx/So are the most nature role breakers.
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Can you translate any of that into layman's language? I can't read it.
 
#18 ·
BigApplePi said:
Can you translate any of that into layman's language? I can't read it.
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Hm. Basically... Wouldn't Self Preservation as first instinct men be more T and Sp women more F as that is what it makes easy the survivance?
And, at the opposite, the Sexual and Social instincts the ones who omit gender roles?
From other observations, Social instincts are neutral to the gender roles, but Sexual are even fiery against it. (Sorry if I made the other entry too complex, I'm not english and I'm oscillating between the parts of the language I can acceed to)
 
#19 ·
I think a lot of it has to do with gender roles. Girls (in many places, I'd say, but not necessarily all, and some places more than others) are told that they are the ones that are to "nurture" and said to be "over-emotional" from the get-go, and especially when this is told at critical stages of growing up, I think it'd make us more likely to be feelers.

As for men, many societies still say that men are supposed to be less emotional. And, again, hearing this at certain stages of life make it more likely to take root in us.


I've even heard women who used to consider themselves a T type (and had scored as one), but overtime score as an F. Hey, this even happened in my case!

I could be wrong, but this is the best conclusion I can come up with as of now.
 
#20 ·
I really wonder how many women mistyped themselves as feelers because of our society's gender roles? Also does everyone who happened to type themselves know about cognitive functions? Probably at least half of them just took these stupid MBTI test online, and they're definitely mistyped, because they based on letters: I vs E, S vs N, F vs T, J vs P. Literally all those tests online are garbage! You can change your type however you want whenever you want, it does not require much analysis. When I was in my self-delusional state and thought that I was INTP because I didn't wanna be feeler I could easily 'correct' the answer. At least I started to learn cognitive functions and got my sh-t together.
 
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