Having one good friend is perfectly natural, though, if the child is an introvert. The students were randomly sampled in proportion to their numbers in the 1990 U.S. population census for race, age, gender and section of the country in which they live. Widely used by adults in workplaces and educational institutions, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator explains a person's psychological makeup along four dimensions. Extroverts generally derive energy from others, while introverts do so from within. People with a practical bent like to get information through facts, while imaginative people rely upon theories.
Thinkers make decisions with logic, while feelers use personal, subjective standards.
Organized people like structure in life, while flexible ones prefer more freedom. If teachers knew this information, they would know which students would benefit from class discussions or working alone, for example, or short assignments as opposed to in-depth projects, Oakland said. He believes personality type may give clues why some children adjust to school more easily than others. Although there are many reasons students drop out of school, Oakland found in his study that blacks, who have a higher drop-out rate than whites, are more likely than whites to base their decisions on thinking' rather than feeling' styles. Thinkers' value honesty even if it hurts the feelings of others, while people with a feeling' orientation are more inclined toward harmony, he said.