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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by smallnamespace on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:37PM (#12686576)
> Meyers Briggs is description

It's impossible to describe personalities without implying value judgments.

I randomly took the first Google link found under 'Myers Briggs' and ended up here:

https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

'Ironically, it is often best for them to remain where they are comfortable – out of the spotlight...'

https://www.16personalities.com/infp-strengths-and-weaknesse...

'Too Idealistic – INFPs often take their idealism too far, setting themselves up for disappointment as, again and again, evil things happen in the world.'

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by michaelborromeo on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:54PM (#12686780)
The sites you list (and a lot of discussion on MBTI) take the judgments way too far. That's when a lot of people conclude MBTI is junk -- when they see these conclusions based on type.

MBTI is basically this: You have a set of observed traits, and from that set we can tell you other traits you likely have based on observing many others that share the same traits.

Or in other words... -Observe trait A -Observe trait B -Observe trait C -Extrapolate trait D -Extrapolate trait E

What those sites are doing is... -Observe trait A -Extrapolate traits C, M, Q, X, Z

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by gnaritas on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:38PM (#12687281)
I suggest you don't understand the distinction I'm making between descriptive and prescriptive.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by smallnamespace on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:57PM (#12687471)
Please provide your definition then, instead of leaving us all guessing?

I interpreted 'prescriptive' as making 'should' rather than 'is' statements.

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