So, without a doubt this is a somewhat skewed sample, constituted as it was entirely by brave souls willing to take an online personality test and post their results on this website. I suspect it tends to undercount some types, but that's just a hunch.
Anyway, the types reported so far include these mainly:
INTJ
ENTJ
INTP
ISTP
ISTJ
INFP
INFJ
ESFP
In case you missed it, here is a link to some descriptions of the various types. The link takes you to INTJ, but you can navigate to others using the links at the top of that page.
While I strongly suspect that each of the different types will tend to have a different style of surveying practice as its preference, probably as important a result of type is that each has an inferior, less developed side that is also characteristic of the type.
The I or E at the beginning of the type abbreviation stands, of course, for Introvert or Extrovert. That is an attitude or orientation that one is, I think, born into.
The last J or P describes what the type's preferred method of dealing with the world is. The J stands for "Judging" and refers to the two fundamental methods for making judgments about the world, Thinking and Feeling, the T and the F. Feeling, by the way is probably better defined by its synonym of "Valuing", of weighing people and things in terms of personal response to them. Thinking simply refers to a way of making judgments along more impersonal lines.
In the case of an Introvert, a "J" means that they meet the world via their Judging function, whether Thinking or Feeling, which is said to be Extroverted, but is not their preferred function. The I_ _ J type will have the so-called Perceptive function, Sensing or Intuition, as their best developed ability and the one that they turn to first.
In the case of an INTJ, while they interact with the world best in thinking terms, their preferred, best developed function is Intuition or a sort of vague system of organizing complexity or possibilities. The important implication of this is that the least developed function of the INTJ type will be Sensation, the detail-oriented function of perception that deals with what is really there and observable.
Along the same lines, in the case of an INFJ, the deficit would likewise ordinarily be in Sensation, in the details that the Intuitive wants to just fly over as unimportant to the overall pattern.
YOUR ALPHA TAG IS?
> YOUR ALPHA TAG IS?
You're asking about my own type? It's INTP, which means that I'm an Introverted Thinking type with Extroverted Intuition. It also means that details like 0.04 ft. don't bother me as much as they do the Introverted Intuitives, the INTJ and INFJ types.
The outward-looking Intuition is what drives my own specialty of retracing very old and obscured boundaries. Those always require keeping multiple theories and contingent lines of investigation running, which Intuition organizes, while of course using Thinking to test the results.
In terms of surveying practice, I suspect that a form of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that is specialized for surveyors would ask questions like:
1) Should a description of a monument ever be longer than may be easily coded into a data collector?
2) Is it more important to get the work out on schedule or are schedules merely aspirational statements that are seldom realized?
3) Have you ever left a North Arrow off a map?
4) Have you ever left a South, East, and West Arrow off a map?
5) Which is worse, finding three survey markers in the vicinity of the corner or finding none?
6) Is it easier to disagree with another surveyor's opinion if you don't like him or her?
1) Should a description of a monument ever be longer than may be easily coded into a data collector?
Yes, that's fine, there is always plenty of paper in the field book
2) Is it more important to get the work out on schedule or are schedules merely aspirational statements that are seldom realized?
Schedules are aspirational statements to act as guides and are frequently met.
3) Have you ever left a North Arrow off a map?
Yes
4) Have you ever left a South, East, and West Arrow off a map?
Always
5) Which is worse, finding three survey markers in the vicinity of the corner or finding none?
Finding three
6) Is it easier to disagree with another surveyor's opinion if you don't like him or her?
No, it's always easy
