Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:47AM
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Strictly speaking you are right, my logic was flawed (hidden assumption). But let's stick with the orignal issue here, which is whether the test is predictive.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
by eivarv on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:56AM
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Agreed - this is why I asked whether there is any proof of its alleged predictive power.
Without this, I don't think it's reasonable to assume that it is in fact predictive.
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:09PM
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Yes, but the point I'm trying to make is that the claim that any test has zero predicitive power is actually pretty bold.
For example, the simple test of whether a user clicks a certain link or not already has predicitive power (companies are using this, fruitfully). So a more sophisticated test like MBTI certainly has some predictive power.
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
by maverick_iceman on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:31PM
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This is a completely bogus argument. Phrenology[1] on its face sounds pretty sophisticated, but it still has zero predictive power.