How are personality traits distributed in the most popular personality frameworks?

How are personality traits distributed? Let's take a deep dive into the distribution of personality traits on Myers-Briggs-style tests, Big Five personality tests, and Enneagram tests, based on data we collected on 23,000 people globally: This bell-curve-like shape is a problem for MBTI-style tests because they want to classify each person as either Extraverted or Introverted, either Sensing or Intuitive and so on (usually represented as a four-letter code, like ENTJ or ISFP). But, for e...
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Who perpetrates sexual harassment and sexual assault, and who are the victims?

This piece was first written in 2017, and first appeared on my website on April 30, 2026. This essay is the second in a series examining sexual harassment and assault. The first essay can be read here, which also includes more information about the study participants. Sexual harassment and assault occur far too often. In this post, I explore what the predictors are of being a perpetrator and being a victim. In particular, I use linear regression to predict whether each person is a ...
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