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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by Simon321 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:12PM (#12685750)
It's much more than 'astrology or tarot cards'. MBTI correlates with the big five personality traits. Which are backed up scientifically.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:22PM (#12685845)
It correlates poorly with any of the competing empirically-supportable models; e.g., as I recall, the I-E axis seems to be a blend of the extraversion and neuroticism axes shared by the EPQ (3 factor) and Big Five (5 factor) models. Better to use one of the scientific models directly than MBTI.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by arde on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:56PM (#12690139)
Indeed. But that doesn't mean MBTI is really meaningless, only that there are better models.
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