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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:30PM (#12685919)
Because it is very hard for a test not to have predictive power.

For example, companies fruitfully extract predictive power from whether a user clicked a link or not. Facebook extracts predictive power from whether users like videos, et cetera. So why shouldn't an elaborate test that was developed to have meaning, not have any predictive power?

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by AstralStorm on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:11PM (#12687594)
Not having predictive power means it is not better than chance at predicting any X.

There are results that show MBTI has no predictive power against job performance. It has not been tested against any other measure.

That said, MBTI shows bad orthogonality in the factors in its response. This suggests the factors are ill defined.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by amelius on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:07PM (#12688075)
> There are results that show MBTI has no predictive power against job performance.

Could you provide a reference?

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by AstralStorm on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @03:26AM (#12690968)
Provided by another person in this thread already.
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