17th MBTI Type (And Other Fun Facts)

What type can we expect as a result if we only click the middle option in the 16 personalities test? And what’s the mysterious 17th type? This and more coming up in this new episode of Deconstructing 16 Personalities. Just kidding.

MBTI as a discipline is a bottomless pit that pulls many people in. it all starts with taking an innocent personality test on 16personalities.com, which is a modified version of an MBTI test.

Then some people might start googling their type, and looking at memes featuring their type, and joining communities, and following MBTI accounts on instagram, and before they know it, they are in too deep.

On a scale from 1 to 10, how much of an MBTI nerd are you? Have you just taken the test, or do you know all Carl Jung books by heart?

Let’s get to some fun facts.

Fun fact #1: The 17th type.

Did you know that there is a 17th type? Me neither. But on Reddit there’s a lot of talk about that mysterious additional type. Apparently 16 types are not enough boxes to put billions of people in. We need just one more box.