Wow, pretty amazing. I test myself every year or two, and other than flipping from ENTP to INTP several years ago, it's been INTP ever since. I'm surprised just how many INTPs there are on here considering the supposedly low prevalence.
FWIW, my wife is ESFJ, the polar opposite. It actually works out rather well. It's worth seeing what your SO is too, I wonder if that's a pattern.
I'm INTP and my girlfriend is INTJ. I consider myself very lucky to have someone to relate to. We have a lot of the same habits -- e.g. we both stay up too late, are too stubborn, and we try to be completely honest with each other -- and usually this is nice, but sometimes we get carried away.
For example, when we met four months ago, we almost completely ignored our school work in favor of getting to know each other.
And for the past week we've been going to bed at 5am and waking up at noon. Ugh. :)
I really think that the 1% prevalence number thrown around for INTPs in the general population has to be an underestimate.
I'm wondering how they came up with that number. Where did they get their test sample? Surely if you go around asking people to take personality tests at random, their likelihood of saying "yes" vs "no, sod off" is going to be a lot stronger for some personality types than others.
I'm fairly certain that INTP is more the norm when looking at the set of people who would be interested in HN. (Well, obviously. I mean that the stereotypical programmer / hacker-in-the-classical-sense seems like they'd fall close to INTP)
You're not wrong there. Mine's a nurse! The way I see it, hopefully I can use my brains to bring in some cash while we're young, and she can care for me once I go senile in my 50s from stress.
FWIW, my wife is ESFJ, the polar opposite. It actually works out rather well. It's worth seeing what your SO is too, I wonder if that's a pattern.