Introversion / Extraversion
Ten items from the Big Five extraversion scale, scored 10 to 50. Population mean is about 30 with an SD of 8. Your percentile and how it compares across countries.
Rate each statement from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Ten items from Goldberg's (1992) Big Five extraversion scale.
1.I am the life of the party.
2.I feel comfortable around people.
3.I talk to a lot of different people at parties.
4.I don't talk a lot.
5.I keep in the background at social events.
6.I have little to say.
7.I don't like to draw attention to myself.
8.I am quiet around strangers.
9.I start conversations.
10.I find it easy to approach others.
Answer all ten statements to see your score.
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About this test
Ten statements from the Big Five Inventory's extraversion scale (John, Donahue and Kentle, 1991), scored 1 to 5 and converted to an introversion score where higher means more introverted. The module places you on a normal curve with mean 20 and SD 8, from the John and Srivastava (1999) norms.
Most people are in the middle. Ambivert is the honest label for about two thirds of the population, those within one SD of the mean (12 to 28). A score of 32 is more introverted than about 93% of people; 8 is more extraverted than about 93%.
Am I an introvert or an extrovert?
Above the mean of 20 on this module leans introverted, below leans extraverted, and 12 to 28 is the broad middle where most people sit. It is a continuum, not two types. Jung coined the terms in 1921 and said nobody is purely one or the other.
What percentage of people are introverts?
It depends where you draw the line. One SD above the mean, roughly a clear introvert, is about 16% of people; the same share are clear extraverts. Popular claims of 25 to 50% use looser definitions.
Is the Big Five the same as Myers-Briggs?
No. The Big Five (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) is the model with the most research support and gives continuous scores. Myers-Briggs sorts people into 16 types and has poor test-retest reliability: around half of people get a different type within five weeks.
Percentiles above come from the same parameters the Introversion / Extraversion module uses. See the methodology for how they are calculated.