Comments | ltmurnau: MBTI and Wargaming

ltmurnau

MBTI and Wargaming

Jul 02, 2008 15:42

Pretty obvious when you think about it, that is if you spend any time around gamers and if you think about Myers-Briggs stuff. This illustrative, um, illustration is from a recent online survey of 645 self-identified hardcore historical wargamers.

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r1vethead July 3 2008, 02:20:33 UTC

Interesting, I test out as a highly integrated either ENTJ or INTJ.

flintultrasparc July 7 2008, 20:43:56 UTC

I see ENTJ has a respectable showing. Interesting study!

flintultrasparc July 7 2008, 20:52:02 UTC

I wonder why the author doesn't try to explain that second largest group is ISTJ. Would that be Inspectors are so focused on the rules of war gaming? I'd like to see a study on the personality types of war game designers.

ltmurnau July 7 2008, 21:12:59 UTC

I've tested out as an ISTJ as well. Sometimes the mood I'm in seems to be the most important thing in determining what MBTI comes out of the test. The description of an Inspector seems to be a fair one of a gamer as well, though perhaps more along the line of "rules lawyer".

As for war game designers, you are working with a much smaller group of people. Perhaps fewer than 200 people in the world have more than 1 or 2 actual wargame designs under their belts. There are different schools of design philosophy too; some are certainly more "intuitive" or impressionistic than others, who can be extremely rigid and deterministic in their way.