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784/929Graziano, <strong>in</strong> an e-mail dated July 31, 2010,refers to <strong>in</strong>troversion/extroversion as “the300 lb. gorilla <strong>of</strong> personality, mean<strong>in</strong>g thatit is big and cannot be ignored easily.”11. <strong>in</strong> the Bible: See “A Note on Term<strong>in</strong>ology.”12. some evolutionary psychologists: Seechapter 6.13. one third to one half <strong>of</strong> Americans are<strong>in</strong>troverts: Rowan Bayne, <strong>in</strong> <strong>The</strong> Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: A Critical Review andPractical Guide (London: Chapman and Hall,1995), 47, f<strong>in</strong>ds the <strong>in</strong>cidence <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>troversionat 36 percent, which is <strong>in</strong> turn determ<strong>in</strong>edfrom Isabel Myers’s own study from1985. A more recent study, published bythe Center for Applications <strong>of</strong> PsychologicalType Research Services <strong>in</strong> 1996, sampled914,219 people and found that 49.3 percentwere extroverts and 50.7 percent were<strong>in</strong>troverts. See “Estimated Frequencies <strong>of</strong>the Types <strong>in</strong> the United States Population,”

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