1 Van der Hoop (who includes the effects of the auxiliary in his descriptions of the types) makes this point explicitly. “The subsidiary function frequently tends to control adaptation in the direction towards which the dominant function is not oriented. For example, an introvert of thinking-type will employ his instinct [sensing] or his intuition particularly for purposes of external adjustment. Or an extraverted intuitive will seek contact with the inner world through thought or feeling.” (1939, p. 93)
2 The revised translations of these quoted passages may be found in the Bolligen Series XX, Vol. 6 (Jung, 1971), pp. 405, 406, 387, and 340.
3 “Sensational” also has distracting connotations which have been avoided by use of the shorter form “sensing,” and “process” has been used instead of “function,” so that the mental processes of perception and judgment may be discussed at any level without the distraction of a less familiar term.
4 See Chapters 4–7, Figures 24–27.
5 Form D2 has been supplanted by Forms G and F; see Myers, 1962.
6 In an early, unpublished study by Isabel Briggs Myers, the Type Indicator was given to male students from eleventh and twelfth grades of a high school serving the whole city of Stamford, Connecticut. Introverts made up 28.1 percent of the 217 students in the eleventh grade and 25.8 percent of the 182 in twelfth grade.
7 Hence, the importance of firm, fair discipline in building a person’s character from infancy on. At the start, the parents are the children’s judgment. If parents waver, the children have nothing to judge by, but if parents set a consistent standard by which the young ones must measure their conduct and govern themselves, the parents give the priceless habit of judging one’s own actions, years before the children are old enough to set up their own effective standards. Self-judgment is the beginning of character. Undisciplined children acquire it much later, more painfully, and less thoroughly, if at all.
8 In introverts these characteristics are somewhat modified by the perceptive nature of the dominant process
9 In introverts these characteristics are somewhat modified by the judging nature of the dominant process.
10 An introverted sensing type said about an extraverted admirer: “He complains that when we are together he does all the talking. Really, it is a two-way conversation—what he says to me and what I say to me. Only what I say isn’t out loud.”
11 This incident is from the author’s unpublished personal research at First Pennsylvania Bank (Philadelphia). Frequency ratio is from Chapter 3, Figures 6 and 7, showing data gathered by author and processed by Educational Testing Service.
12 Author’s unpublished research.
13 The Monograph entitled Myers Longitudinal Medical Study, which describes both follow-up studies, may be obtained from the Center for Applications of Psychological Type, 1441 Northwest 6th Street, Suite B-400, Gainesville, Florida 32601.
14 The total drop-out rate from medical school is somewhat higher than these percentages would indicate. The known permanent drop-outs from this sample included neither those students who dropped out before their class took the Type Indicator, nor those who dropped out temporarily and later were admitted to and graduated from another school.
15 The last letter of the type formula, J or P, shows whether the outer world is dealt with in the judging or the perceptive attitude. In extraverts the last letter describes the General; in introverts it describes the Aide. The first letter, E or I, always describes the General.
16 An early, unpublished study by Isabel Briggs Myers is the basis of statements in this chapter about the frequencies of types in the general population. The Type Indicator was given to male students from the eleventh and twelfth grades of a high school serving the whole city of Stamford, Connecticut. Among the 217 students in the eleventh grade, 28.1 percent were introverts and 26.7 percent were intuitives; among the 182 twelfth-graders, 25.8 percent were introverts and 33.0 were intuitives. The percent of intuitives may have increased because of sensing types leaving school after their attendance was no longer compulsory.