Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 11: The Combinations of Hufflepuff (II)

Hi everyone, and welcome to our eleventh installment in this series with which I’m sure you’re well acquainted at this point (and if you aren’t, I would highly recommend checking out previous articles first). In today’s post we will be finishing our analysis of the combinations of Hufflepuff, by looking at the people who get sorted into Horned Serpent and Wampus (click the link to go to the individual house articles).

Without further ado, let’s get started.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 10: The Combinations of Hufflepuff (I)

Welcome all to another instance of this series, where we attempt to see whether we can map the Hogwarts/Ilvermorny combinations to the 16 MBTI types. Today’s post has us beginning our in-depth exploration of the House of Hufflepuff, one which is very near and dear to my heart. Formalities apply, so here you can read the individual articles for Hufflepuff as well as Thunderbird and Pukwudgie.

Let’s have a brief recap. The average odds for any given Hogwarts house to be sorted into a given Ilvermorny house is as follows:

• Thunderbird: 36.21%
• Pukwudgie: 26.81%
• Horned Serpent: 23.83%
• Wampus: 13.15%

This is how Hufflepuff contributes to that dynamic:

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 9: The Combinations of Ravenclaw (II)

Welcome everybody to a new instalment in our series, where we attempt to see whether we can establish a connection between MBTI types and the Harry Potter house combinations. It has been almost a year since the last post, and I thoroughly apologize for that, but just pretend to ignore the date on this article and let’s jump straight into what interests us.

Last time around, we covered the first half of Ravenclaw’s combinations, and we intend to finish the remaining half today. As a reminder, you can check out the articles for the individual houses if you need a reminder of the types contained therein, which in this article will be Ravenclaw, Horned Serpent, and Wampus.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 8: The Combinations of Ravenclaw (I)

Hello everybody, welcome to another installment in this series. I must apologize for having posted no articles last week, it’s been a rough couple of days, but now we’re back on schedule. As you may have guessed from the title, we will be doing Ravenclaw today, as well as in our next installment. As usual, I highly encourage you to go read the previous posts going over Ravenclaw, as well as the houses we’re going to look at today, Thunderbird and Pukwudgie.

First, let us remember that the average distribution for any given Hogwarts house to be sorted into a given Ilvermorny house is as follows:

• Thunderbird: 36.21%
• Pukwudgie: 26.81%
• Horned Serpent: 23.83%
• Wampus: 13.15%

How does Ravenclaw stack up? Here’s a chart to break down exactly that.

Without further ado, let’s get started on the combinations.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 7: The Combinations of Gryffindor (II)

Hello everyone, welcome back to the series where we see whether we can link Harry Potter and Jungian psychological types. Last time around we covered half of Gryffindor’s combinations, and this time around we’re gonna be finishing our analysis of the gold and crimson house.

Once again, I highly recommend you go and read Gryffindor’s article, so you can get a better idea of our starting point. You’d also do well to read the article concerning itself with the houses of Horned Serpent and Wampus, for the same reason.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 6: The Combinations of Gryffindor (I)

Welcome everyone to the sixth part of our series, where we seek to determine whether we can gain some insight about the Harry Potter housing based on their MBTI typology, and see whether we can link them in any way. Today we will be looking at all possible combinations between the Hogwarts House of Gryffindor with Ilvermorny Houses, to see what those combinations tell us.

As a brief reminder, this is what the standalone houses’ types look like:

• Gryffindor – ESFP
• Ravenclaw – INTP
• Hufflepuff – ISFJ
• Slytherin – ENTJ
• Thunderbird – ENFP/INFP
• Pukwudgie – ESFJ/ISFJ
• Horned Serpent – INTP/INTJ
• Wampus – ENTP/ESTP/INTP/ISTP

Before we take a look at how Gryffindor mixes with these houses, there is some groundwork to be lain. I separated all individual combinations, and calculated both the percentage of a given house to be linked to another one, and then averaged that between houses. The point of this is to determine what house combinations are more likely to occur while eliminating as much sample bias as is possible.

In our survey, for example, Thunderbird was the most represented house, so it tends to dominate throughout Hogwarts houses as the most common pair. However, it’s a much larger percentile of Ravenclaws (almost 50%) than it is of Slytherins (around 28%), so I wanted that to be reflected somehow. Which is why we average those values, and compare the individual results to it.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 5: The Houses of Horned Serpent and Wampus

Taken from Ilvermorny Press

Last time around, on the fourth installment, we started looking at the Ilvermorny houses. This time around, we’ll be closing out the overview of Ilvermorny, thus concluding our analysis of every individual house.

Starting Thursday, we’ll be looking at the house combinations between Hogwarts and Ilvermorny. There will be an article for each Hogwarts house, detailing its pairing with each Ilvermorny house. First up will be Gryffindor, and then we’ll do Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin.

With all due anouncements having been made, let’s proceed on to the data.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 4: The Houses of Thundebird and Pukwudgie

Welcome everybody to the fourth installment of this series, where we seek to determine whether the Harry Potter housing results line up with MBTI types, and what that says about them. In our last installment we finished the Hogwarts houses; as a quick summary, the typings we found for each house according to our survey were

• Gryffindor: ESFP
• Ravenclaw: INTP
• Hufflepuff: ISFJ
• Slytherin: ENTJ/ESTJ

This time, we’re going to analyze the first two Ilvermorny houses, Thunderbird and Pukwudgie. Now, Ilvermorny housing is different from Hogwarts, in the sense that the descriptions of those who are sorted there do not depend on individual traits, such as bravery or ambition, but rather on more “macro” aspects of personality. At first glance, this would mean that the people sorted within a given house would be more similar to each other than, say, the population of a given Hogwarts house, since they’re defined by their paths in life more than by certain character traits.

Whether that’s the case or not, we’re about to find out.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 3: The Houses of Hufflepuff and Slytherin

It’s been a long and busy week since Part 2 of the series came up, and I do apologize for taking so long to update. So let’s get on to the remaining Hogwarts houses without further delay, the houses of Hufflepuff and Slytherin. I fully recommend reading Part 2 before this one in case you haven’t, since it outlines the parameters used for the results in this post.

Hufflepuff

Hufflepuffs are the kind, noble people of the Harry Potter universe. The books describe Hufflepuff as “[the house] where they are just and loyal; those patient Hufflepuffs are true, and unafraid of toil”. Founded by Helga Hufflepuff, the house of yellow and black has a badger as their animal, and places emphasis on hard work, patience, loyalty, and fair play.

No questions here about the people in this house – Hufflepuffs are the kind of people who are, well, kind. Save a few rare exceptions, you shouldn’t ever be screwed over by a Hufflepuff, since they are most likely to be the people who will jump up in your defense should anyone be screwing you over. Hufflepuffs are loyal friends for life, sticking through thick and thin, who do not falter in the face of adversity when their affections are involved.

Harry Potter and MBTI, Part 2: The Houses of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw

In the previous part of this series, we analyzed what the average response to the survey looks like, so that we could use that as a base on which to calculate the variance introduced by the various houses. As a refresher, this is what it looked like:

“The average Harry Potter reader who completed this survey has a strong tendency towards Introverted Focus (81%), Intuitive Information Intake (85%), Decision-making through Feeling (54%) and Outer Actions through Judging (51%).”

Before we start, I should clarify what some words will mean in this context. I have defined the values as follows, based on the deviation from the base:

• A deviation between 0% and 1.5% is considered neutral – there’s no tendency towards either value
• A deviation between 1.5% and 4% is considered slight – there’s a tendency but it’s not marked
• A deviation between 4% and 7% is considered moderate – a marked tendency
• A deviation between 7% and 10% is considered strong – can be safely assumed to be a normal case
• A deviation above 10% is considered very strong – the impact cannot be understated

So what does each individual house bring to the table? Without further ado, let’s jump straight into it.