As anyone can imagine, the distribution of Enneagram types is a fascinating subject and has been studied many times. Thanks to @cyamitide , I found this with type prevalences for both genders. They state that these results have been very consistent with what others have reported previously. Well, you can judge the power of that argument by yourself but that's what they say. Anyway, here are their inspiring results!
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What do you think? I wasn't that surprised that type 2 is the most common among females, type 9 among males and that type 5 is the least common among females and type 2 among males.
However, many other things were a bit surprising. For example, type 3 is the least common type and type 7 is the next... Oh, many people here seem to think types 4 and 5 are the rarest ones but based on these results, they are not based on these results! Nearly every fifth person is a 4 and the same is true for type 5 too. Combined, types 4 and 5 make 37 %.
Certain types seem to correlate with the gender at least to some extent. Types 2 and 4 are clearly more common among females and types 5 and 8 are more common among males - a surprise or not.
Anyway, if you sum a bit, you'll find out that...
type 1: 28 %
type 2: 24 %
type 3: 11 %
type 4: 18 %
type 5: 19 %
type 6: 29 %
type 7: 16 %
type 8: 24 %
type 9: 33 %
Based on these, from the least common to the most common we get
3 < 7 < 4 < 5 < 2 = 8 < 1 < 6 < 9
They also reported Enneagram marriage frequencies. Also those results were interesting, for example same-type marriages are rare except among Fours and people tend to marry along a line of integration.
Oh, I know statistics are only statistics but it's one of my passions so here we are ^_^
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What do you think? I wasn't that surprised that type 2 is the most common among females, type 9 among males and that type 5 is the least common among females and type 2 among males.
However, many other things were a bit surprising. For example, type 3 is the least common type and type 7 is the next... Oh, many people here seem to think types 4 and 5 are the rarest ones but based on these results, they are not based on these results! Nearly every fifth person is a 4 and the same is true for type 5 too. Combined, types 4 and 5 make 37 %.
Certain types seem to correlate with the gender at least to some extent. Types 2 and 4 are clearly more common among females and types 5 and 8 are more common among males - a surprise or not.
Anyway, if you sum a bit, you'll find out that...
type 1: 28 %
type 2: 24 %
type 3: 11 %
type 4: 18 %
type 5: 19 %
type 6: 29 %
type 7: 16 %
type 8: 24 %
type 9: 33 %
Based on these, from the least common to the most common we get
3 < 7 < 4 < 5 < 2 = 8 < 1 < 6 < 9
They also reported Enneagram marriage frequencies. Also those results were interesting, for example same-type marriages are rare except among Fours and people tend to marry along a line of integration.
Oh, I know statistics are only statistics but it's one of my passions so here we are ^_^