At the same mb where I encountered the unscientific poll on IQ scores, there is another poll, equally unscientific, answered by many more of us there-over 500 people responded. In this case, it was each person's results from the Myers-Briggs personality test.
To make a long story short, 6.1% of the people who replied there are extroverted, with the remainder of us being introverted-not unexpected, given the nature of the mb. Due to this, most of us there don't perceive ourselves as "fitting in" all that well with "mainstream" society (and I don't quite know how "mainstream" society should be defined here). To give an anecdotal example, someone started a thread there about how an interviewer turned him down for a job because he wasn't at all an extrovert. He was applying for a job as a tech writer! I don't have the slightest idea why you'd have to be extroverted to qualify for such a job.
On SW, from a number of threads I've read in the past, the work is viewed as questionable or taboo as perceived by said "mainstream" society - whether it's a guy working as a dj, or a woman working as a dancer.
Over on the other mb, many people there feel like outcasts, outsiders or sometimes even outlaws, due to one reason or another. Do any people here feel the same way, or perhaps a combination of outcast, outsider and/or outlaw? The reasons might be different, or similar. Just something I've become curious about due to reading a number of different message boards.



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