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Occasionally you come across patterns in people that you wouldn't except from their type, at first glance. On reflection they invariably make sense once you look deeper into their functional stack, but I thought to note some of them here. Note I'm not talking about the outliers, but regular, consistent patterns that play out not infrequently.
F dominants in STEM
I've frequently come across Feeler types in the STEM field. Surprising, I'd never have expected that, normally I'd expect F dominants to go into fields with more people contact. The trick here is that they're almost always S dominants too, I've never found a NF in STEM (beyond school at least). The SF's though seem to do just fine due to their S diligence and attention to detail. Let's face it, much of STEM is button counting and pushing projects through, and I've found many examples of ESFP's, ISFP's, ISFJ's and ESFJ's in the field(s).
T dominants in service professions
Such as doctor, dentist, teaching and so forth. This is more common than the above, but again at first blush you might not expect a T dominant to be interesting in helping people directly. Here I think it's a little simpler, they often gravitate toward the ones that require more education (doctor), but they are often pretty cold practitioners.
INTP's in the humanities
You'd expect that INTP's would predominantly go into STEM, but quite frequently you find them in the humanities as discussed here. In this case I think it's the Ne auxiliary, which pushes INTP's out of the sometimes detail heavy STEM courses into the humanities, which is closer to Philosophy which is a favorite topic. Even then these INTP's find ways to theorize and observe (e.g. Larry David, Henry James).
I'll add others, please contribute your own observations.
F dominants in STEM
I've frequently come across Feeler types in the STEM field. Surprising, I'd never have expected that, normally I'd expect F dominants to go into fields with more people contact. The trick here is that they're almost always S dominants too, I've never found a NF in STEM (beyond school at least). The SF's though seem to do just fine due to their S diligence and attention to detail. Let's face it, much of STEM is button counting and pushing projects through, and I've found many examples of ESFP's, ISFP's, ISFJ's and ESFJ's in the field(s).
T dominants in service professions
Such as doctor, dentist, teaching and so forth. This is more common than the above, but again at first blush you might not expect a T dominant to be interesting in helping people directly. Here I think it's a little simpler, they often gravitate toward the ones that require more education (doctor), but they are often pretty cold practitioners.
INTP's in the humanities
You'd expect that INTP's would predominantly go into STEM, but quite frequently you find them in the humanities as discussed here. In this case I think it's the Ne auxiliary, which pushes INTP's out of the sometimes detail heavy STEM courses into the humanities, which is closer to Philosophy which is a favorite topic. Even then these INTP's find ways to theorize and observe (e.g. Larry David, Henry James).
I'll add others, please contribute your own observations.