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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by eivarv on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:56AM (#12685572)
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.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:09PM (#12685707)
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.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by maverick_iceman on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:31PM (#12685925)
This is a completely bogus argument. Phrenology[1] on its face sounds pretty sophisticated, but it still has zero predictive power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:39PM (#12686002)
Read this: http://www.medicaldaily.com/how-birth-month-influences-perso...
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by eivarv on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:24PM (#12685857)
Unless it is demonstrated to have some predictive power, it isn't certain at all.

Additionally, the added (relative) complexity doesn't imply anything about its qualities.

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