I've noticed that Myers-Briggs type N is overrepresented every time the MBTI comes up in NOM-leaning and ex-Mormon forums. Only 10% in Utah are type N, but it's been over 50% online.alas wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:14 am We NOMs have the Introvert, thinking, ..INTP??? personality type which is a small percentage, like 5% of the whole population and about 1/2 of NOM. So, personality is a big factor. The church just does not work well for introverts who tend to think things through more than base “truth” on feelings. We also tend to value TRUTH, fairness and social justice over tradition and LOYALITY which makes many of us lean left politically. So, many of us never felt like we fit in even if we believed, we just felt different than most of our tribe. And when you feel like a square peg in a round hole, you tend to try to fix yourself and when that doesn’t work, you start looking around to see what the problem really is. Then you find what you are looking for. Truth.
The square-peg-round-hole problem is real.