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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by 77pt77 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:51AM (#12685520)
> MBTI has predictive power; for starters, it is used by companies to test if a person is fit for certain tasks.

This is a null argument.

Unless you show that those predictions actually assess whether someone is fit for those tasks this is absolutely content free.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:21PM (#12686410)
That kind of makes sense, in a kafkan way, in a society so full of preparatory courses that will teach you how to do a test (instead of the contents of the test), or how to perform in interviews.
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