Quote Originally Posted by golden View Post
@thehotelambush, when I google “big 5 traits normal distribution” what comes up are lots of secondary sources that assert the distribution is normal as a basic aspect of big 5, for example:

https://medium.com/psyc-406-2016/fiv...l-ca524c5d2a60

I haven’t had time to investigate further but will keep looking. The statements I’ve read re personality trait distribution in the last few months were not all specific to MBTI iirc but I’d have to retrace my steps.
Big Five was created through statistical analysis - they took a whole bunch of traits / questions and figured out that certain ones correlated with other ones.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104167/

Of course the problem is that Big Five has no theoretical basis, unlike socionics. But it does show that certain traits are essentially bimodal - not that that has any bearing on socionics, which measures different traits that haven't been empirically investigated with any depth.