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By anders pearson 01 Jul 2000

a while back on a webdesign mailing list i’m on, someone put forth the theory that because webdesign often combines creative/artistic work with programming, webdesigners and coders might tend more towards certain ends of the Myers-Briggs personality spectrum. to test this hypothesis, i set up a simple poll script and invited the listees to take the kiersey test and then enter their type. the list has about 800 subscribers. i’ve gotten 142 responses so far. the kiersey test website lists their statistics; here are the results i got, including a column showing my results normalized against the kiersey ones (thanks to Dave Nicholls for the statistics know how on that part):

typenumberpercentagenormalized*
ENFJ42.8169014084507 %0.369672100846549
ENFP117.74647887323944 %0.912423895552348
ENTJ42.8169014084507 %0.861437739587371
ENTP96.33802816901408 %2.85496764370004
ESFJ53.52112676056338 %0.297392462885421
ESFP10.704225352112676 %0.14857074939086
ESTJ53.52112676056338 %0.330622231038815
ESTP21.40845070422535 %0.525541307546773
INFJ139.15492957746479 %1.20143432775128
INFP3121.830985915493 % 3.17310841794956
INTJ2114.7887323943662 %2.66463646745337
INTP1510.5633802816901 %3.30105633802817
ISFJ53.52112676056338 % 0.366784037558685
ISFP42.8169014084507 % 0.926612305411416
ISTJ53.52112676056338 % 0.338895742113896
ISTP74.92957746478873 % 2.24071702944942


out of 142 total

i don’t know nearly enough about statistics to interpret this data properly but it certainly looks like webdesigners tend heavily towards the IN group with 3 times the normal levels of INTP (architect), INFP (healer), and INTJs (mastermind), along with the ENTPs (inventor). the profession also seems to be surprisingly lacking in ESFP (performer), ENFJ (teacher), ESFJ (provider), ESTJ (supervisor), ISFJ (protector), and ISTJ (inspector) types.

probably not a large enough sample size to really draw any conclusions, but an interesting experiment nonetheless.

post 4

By anders pearson 01 Jul 2000

today is my cat rufus’ 20th birthday. every time i go home to visit my parents i’m genuinely amazed that he’s still alive and walking around.

post 3

By tuck 01 Jul 2000

Well, I’ve made email mistakes before (as Anders knows-sex ‘n sushi all the way) but, I’ve just bested myself. As a way of releasing my inner pain at my lastest self-stabbing online, I’ll share…

I just switched to a new mail address. To test whether I had successfully removed the auto-sig that the company uses to advertise for itself, I compiled a new one and sent it out to some friends:
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“You gnaw leather chew toys, you scum sucking, frog victimizing, aberrant promulgator of Pikachu’s greasy, tick-plagued loins! You hairball slurping, chicken jumping, pseudo-human android spawn of a malodorous pervert! You lewd harbinger of a space alien’s romantic fling at the zoo! Die!”
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Well, my new sig did replace the standard one. About a day later I began sending “change of email address” out to all important people, including potential and starting-this-wednesday-at-a-new-job employers. Accidentally (and perfectly) I forgot to replace the sig file test I made, so at the end of each “change of email address, please reply to confirm address update” was “You knaw leather chew toys…” etc.

aiyaiyai. so far, one reply from a firm in Seattle which said only: “Cute.”

in song… “Ohhhhh, how many times can i f!ck myself over, how many times indeeeee eee eee eeeeed…”

i guess this will show me immediately all the firms with cool senior p.i.‘s :)

post 1

By anders pearson 30 Jun 2000

well, here we are with the new version of /dev/random. i never could get MySQL or PostgreSQL to talk to perl with the DBI interface (at least when run as a CGI). instead i just went old skool and have this all running off a couple unix dbm files. not the most scalable solution but should be fine until we start getting massive traffic or something.

i’ll be sending seeders their new passwords as soon as i add them to the database.