There has been an increasing motivation among researchers to identify relationships between software engineering tasks and software developers' personality traits. This study investigates MBTI personality distribution of first (junior) and fifth (senior) year software engineering students at the University of Informatics Sciences, in Havana (Cuba), aiming to infer attrition rates among software engineering students. One hundred software engineering students were surveyed, 50% at junior level and 50% at senior level. Results show that ESTPs and ENTPs are overrepresented in both samples, whereas INTJs and INTPs are underrepresented. This study may help us to predict which types are more likely to complete a degree in software engineering.
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