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Bulgaria: personality profile

Based on 989 people in Bulgaria who answered the same 50 Big Five questions as our free test, scored exactly like it.

The most common types in Bulgaria are INTP (The Analyst), ISTP (The Tinkerer) and ENTP (The Innovator).

Stands out

Compared with other countries, test-takers in Bulgaria stand out most on Openness / Intellect: they rank 10 of 62 for being imaginative.

Personality twin

The country whose average traits are closest to Bulgaria is Serbia. Also close: Slovenia, Romania.

Compare with Serbia

Average traits

Average percentile on each trait (50 = the middle of our norm group). The grey marker shows the average country.

Extraversion46.4
IntrovertedExtraverted
Openness / Intellect57.1
PracticalImaginative
Agreeableness39.5
Tough-mindedCompassionate
Conscientiousness45.3
FlexibleOrganized
Emotional Stability49.6
ResponsiveComposed

Out of every 100 test-takers

37NT · intuitive thinkers
25NF · intuitive feelers
16SJ · practical planners
22SP · practical improvisers

All 16 types

Share of test-takers with each four-letter type, and how much more or less common it is than in the average country.

Clearly more common than in the average country: ENTP (+45%), INFP (+33%), ENTJ (+32%).

Clearly less common: ESFJ (−64%), ESTJ (−28%), ISTP (−25%).

TypeSharevs average country
INTPThe Analyst11.8%17% more common
ISTPThe Tinkerer11%25% less common
ENTPThe Innovator9.4%45% more common
INTJThe Strategist8.6%about average
ISTJThe Steward8.1%about average
ENFPThe Spark7.6%25% more common
ENFJThe Mentor7.5%about average
ENTJThe Director7%32% more common
INFPThe Idealist5.9%33% more common
ESTPThe Operator4.8%14% less common
INFJThe Visionary4.6%about average
ISFJThe Caretaker3.5%about average
ISFPThe Artisan3.1%19% less common
ESTJThe Organizer2.9%28% less common
ESFPThe Enthusiast2.7%21% less common
ESFJThe Host1.4%64% less common

Composed or responsive?

Emotional stability is the trait the four letters leave out. In Bulgaria, 50% of test-takers get the composed C letter (average country: 50%); the rest get the responsive R letter.

Compare with another country

These are self-selected online test-takers, not a representative sample of any country. Averages describe groups, never individuals.

About this data

Where does this data come from?

From the IPIP-FFM dataset that Open Psychometrics released for research: 1,015,341 responses (2016–2018) to the same 50 public-domain Big Five items our free test uses. The country comes from each respondent’s internet connection; it was not asked. We kept 593,520 responses after cleaning and scored them exactly like our test.

How was the data cleaned?

We kept only one response per internet address, responses with all 50 items answered, tests that took at least 75 seconds, and responses that did not give the same answer to every item. A country gets a profile when at least 500 responses remain; 62 countries qualify.

Are the results representative of each country?

No. These are people who chose to take an English-language personality test online, so they are younger, more online and more English-speaking than their countries as a whole. Differences between countries are real for this sample, but they are not a portrait of a nation, and they never tell you about any one person.

Why five traits and not six?

This dataset has the five Big Five traits but not Honesty-Humility (the M/A letter), so the Atlas shows the 16 four-letter types and the composed/responsive C/R letter, not all 64 types.

What is the “average country”?

The plain average of all countries in the Atlas, each counted equally, so the largest samples (such as the United States) don’t dominate the comparison.

Open Psychometrics, IPIP-FFM data (2016–2018): openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata. Items: International Personality Item Pool, ipip.ori.org.

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