u/Belzaw

I posted a google form about two weeks ago gathering data about mistyping. Some people were interested in seeing the results so this is the results post. I asked how long the respondents have been studying the enneagram, so the “2+ years” is in reference to those who chose 2+ years as how long they’ve studied. I realize that people can still be incorrectly typed after 2 years, I just think it’s probably less likely. There are some pie charts of some statistics here: Pie Charts

# of people who responded and their type:
1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 6, 4: 9, 5: 9, 6: 7, 7: 9, 8: 3, 9: 9 (57 total)

# of people who responded and their type; only 2+ years:
1: 2 2: 2 3: 4 4: 3 5: 4 6: 5 7: 4 8: 3 9: 6

percent of each type that has studied 2+ years:
1: 100%, 2: 67%, 3: 67%, 4: 33%, 5: 44%, 6: 71%, 7: 44%, 8: 100%, 9: 67%

The following are interesting things I noticed. I also took note of which triads (object relations, centers, harmonics, social styles) every type mistyped as. Take it with a grain of salt since the sample size was low.

The percent of people who identified as 4s had the lowest rate of having studied the enneagram for 2+ years.

People who were more likely to mistype within their own center of intelligence (body, head, heart) were mostly head types.

People were more likely to mistype as their disintegration line than their integration line.

The only triad mistype that happened with every number was in object relations.

9s mistyped in every category except within their center of intelligence.

4, 5, and 7 were the most common mistypes.

The percent of people who said they hadn’t mistyped after isolating those who have studied the enneagram for 2+ years went down by more than 50%.