Here are the eight types of internet dater – ring any bells? | Philippa Perry
A recent piece in nymag.com reported that 5% of OkCupid hopefuls looking for love now put their Myers-Briggs type into their profile information. This is despite the writer Roman Krznaric reporting that psychologists have doubted their efficacy for decades. Indeed, if we retake a Myers-Briggs test just five weeks after the first test, 50% of us will come out with a different result. These types of personality tests are also guilty of being reductive, putting us in categories such as "extrovert" or "introvert" when in reality we are mixtures of both. So I really do not recommend over-simplifying human nature, which is always in flux, by putting people in boxes and slapping on labels. Except it's so fun to do - so with that in mind, I've come up with my own labels for internet daters. I hope you find them useful.
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