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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by AlexandrB on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:07AM (#12685056)
That's meaningless unless you confirm that their fitness for that task was actually correlated to their MTBI, e.g. by mixing those "fit" and "unfit" (based on MTBI) on the same task and comparing their performance. I'm pretty sure most companies don't do this. They just assume MTBI has predictive power and use it anyway since it gives them something to go on besides gut instinct.
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:11AM (#12685103)
Well, I know for sure that a person with an INTJ personality type is not suited for marketing and sales (statistically speaking of course). Would you claim otherwise?
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by foopityfop on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:00PM (#12685622)
Yes I would. Given the inconsistency of results that the Myers-Briggs test outputs for individuals, the personality of that person who tested as an INTJ could be far from it normally.

Furthermore, your willingness to buy into the narrative (and others' willingness to also believe it) that by categorizing certain people into stereotypes and assuming that most of these people tend to excel at a particular set of tasks is most likely what limits them from excelling at tasks that lie outside of their respective sets just as much as their true predisposition to not excelling at them.

Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:02PM (#12685639)
Then please point me to the research, because the article does a lousy job at it.

Saying that any profiling technique has zero predictive value is a very bold claim.

Even one's astrological sign has predictive value: [1]. And yes, this has been scientifically proven.

[1] http://www.medicaldaily.com/how-birth-month-influences-perso...

Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by taco_emoji on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:21PM (#12685838)
Why is it the job of the skeptic to prove that a profiling technique does not have predictive power? Shouldn't you have to prove that it does?
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:30PM (#12685919)
Because it is very hard for a test not to have predictive power.

For example, companies fruitfully extract predictive power from whether a user clicked a link or not. Facebook extracts predictive power from whether users like videos, et cetera. So why shouldn't an elaborate test that was developed to have meaning, not have any predictive power?

Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by AstralStorm on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:11PM (#12687594)
Not having predictive power means it is not better than chance at predicting any X.

There are results that show MBTI has no predictive power against job performance. It has not been tested against any other measure.

That said, MBTI shows bad orthogonality in the factors in its response. This suggests the factors are ill defined.

Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:07PM (#12688075)
> There are results that show MBTI has no predictive power against job performance.

Could you provide a reference?

Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by AstralStorm on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @03:26AM (#12690968)
Provided by another person in this thread already.
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by maverick_iceman on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:29PM (#12685906)
Don't invert the burden of proof.
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by taco_emoji on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:19PM (#12685818)
How do you know that?
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by maverick_iceman on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:27PM (#12685883)
Have you done any controlled experiment to test this hypothesis?