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Looking at this thread and not arguing for / against the Myers-Briggs, I do have a question.

Has anyone reading this who took the test scored an S (sensing) instead of the N (intuition)? I see variance in the other three slots but not that one.

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Yes, I scored an S (and I am a developer). IMHO, The reason why most people get an "N" and often INTJ is because all the cool answers lead one to be typed as INTJ (I score INTJ sometimes, but I was pretty sure I am not that sharp and did not score straight A's in school) . If one attempts the test thinking he is logical and unemotional as Dr.House or Dexter, he would end up being typed as an INTJ. A lot of the times questions are ambiguous and I choose an option as I just wanted to get done with the boring part. The interesting part is then later talking about what fiction character has what type and what celeb is of what type and then reading up /r/<MBTI>. I think the rest of the stuff like correlation with being a developer (and good developer if you look at INTJ forums/descriptions) is generally wrong because 1) people take the test thinking about what they want to be and not what they really are 2) Most of it is plain stereotyping and since S types are generally typed in as less logical, most developers' will end up not getting that as their results. 3) I believe (and have observed in my 20-something life) that hard work trumps everything in the end

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