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Building on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types, which categorizes human cognition into four primary functions, Sensing, Intuition, Thinking, and Feeling, this study investigates how these functions, when combined with the attitudes of Extraversion and Introversion, influence personality types and career choices in the tech sector. Through a comprehensive analysis of data from 30 studies spanning multiple countries and decades, encompassing 18,264 individuals in computer-related professions, we identified the most prevalent cognitive functions and their combinations. After normalizing the data against general population distributions, our findings showed that individual Jungian functions (Te, Ni, Ti, Ne), dual function combinations (Ni-Te, Ti-Ne, Si-Te, Ni-Fe), and MBTI types (INTJ, ENTJ, INTP, ENTP, ISTJ, INFJ, ESTJ, ESTP) had significantly higher representation compared to general population norms. The paper addresses gapsin the existing literature by providing a more nuanced understanding of how cognitive functions impact job performance and team dynamics, offering insights for career guidance, team composition, and professional development in the computer industry, and a deeper understanding of how cognitive preferences influence career success in technology-related fields.  \nKeywords Jungian Cognitive Functions · MBTI · Personality Type · Computer Industry · Career Success · Software Engineering · Computer Science · Team Dynamics  \n1 Introduction  \nCarl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, developed a theory of psychological types that provides profound insights into human personality, the key characteristics and emphasis of which are shown in Table 1 . Central to Jung’s theory are the concepts of Extraversion and Introversion, which describe the general attitude or orientation of an individual’s energy. These attitudes form the basis for how individuals interact with the world and other people. Building on these attitudes, Jung introduced four primary cognitive functions, Sensing, Intuition, Thinking, and Feeling, to describe how individuals perceive information and make decisions. These functions, when combined with the attitudes of Extraversion and Introversion, form the core of Jung’s personality theory, and Table 1 provides an overview of key characteristics and emphasis of different functions (C. Jung & Beebe, 2016; C. G. Jung, 2014, 1971b) .  \nExtraversion and Introversion are two opposing attitudes that describe the direction in which an individual’s energy flows. Perceiving functions are concerned with how we gather and interpret information from the environment. Jung  \n∗ Corresponding author: Hamed Farbeh, [farbeh@aut.ac.ir](farbeh@aut.ac.ir).  \nHow Jungian Cognitive Functions Explain MBTI Type Prevalence in Computer Industry Careers  \nidentified two key perceiving functions: Sensing (S) and Intuition (N) . 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