From: Scott Badger (wbadger@psyberlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 11 1998 - 19:21:49 MST
From: tsoon <tsoon@mail.usyd.edu.au>
>>My hypothesis is that libertarians are partly the confluence of extreme
>>scores on some independent underlying shared dimensions such as hi
>>openness, low agreeableness, low Neuroticism and empathy, and hi
>>intelligence. We have a study investigating this at present, examining
>>the relationship between the major dimensions of personality, libertarian
>>views, and susceptibility to superstition.
>
>
>I read somewhere on the web that libertarians are likely to fall in the
>INTJ/INTP/ENTP/ENTJ dimensions on the Myers Brigg test. Any truth to this?
>
The common elements among those four categories are N and T
Characteristics Associated with the Four Temperaments (Kiersey, 1985)
Intuitive-Thinker Type (NT)
* analytic
* efficient
* logical
* curious
* inventive
Relating this to Tim Bates reference to the 5 Factor theory (an
interesting study that I need to think about), I have conducted
research that indicates that Thinking and iNtuitive types are
most strongly correlated to the "Open to Experience" factor
of personality and least correlated with "Extroversion" (nothing
to do with extropy) and "Agreeableness". When Dr. (?) Bates
completes his study, we can make some reasonable and testable
hypotheses about political leanings and the MBTI.
Scott Badger
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