Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
by eastbayjake on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:50PM
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I don't think about M-B or Tarot or astrology as predictive, they are mindfulness prods: interesting frameworks to break up and reframe the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are. A horoscope that tells me "this week will present challenges at work about money" is likely to prod me into mindfulness about work and money than I would be otherwise. Similarly, my ESTJ M-B type is more likely to make me mindful about where I get my energy and the ways in which rigorously analytical thinking may not be the way lots of other humans approach decisions.
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
by jfoutz on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:06PM
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That's such a J thing to say.
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
by xkcd-sucks on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:59AM
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Astrology is correlated to seasonal climate change etc. which can plausibly affect life outcomes, though
Because those mentioned deal with random events, where X and Y are uncorrelated (being X a date of birth or card drawn from Tarot and Y is some personality characteristic)
MB do ask you questions from which you can predict - to some degree - some outcomes (how do you think a strong Extrovert changes from a strong Introvert)?
Just don't do something stupid like "this job requires a INTJ only" or think that the distribution is bimodal or that their behaviour will follow a strict pattern.
(It's not like the rest of "behavioral science" can make repeatable predictions and reproduce papers compared to other scientific branches)