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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by gnaritas on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:53AM (#12693379)
And yet, misuse of a tool does not invalidate the tool; MBTI can do something the big 5 can't, assign a category which aids in thinking about and understanding another person which as someone else in this discussion points out can be statistically mapped directly to the big 5 making it not at all a useless tool.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by sn9 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:56PM (#12697588)
This is also true of astrology and MBTI has as much scientific validity and predictive value.

No one's disputing that a useless tool can be misused. They're questioning the use of useless tools at all. They give the illusion of understanding to those not interested in evidence.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by gnaritas on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:45PM (#12704319)
> This is also true of astrology

False.

> and MBTI has as much scientific validity and predictive value.

As it can be mapped directly to the big 5, this is also false.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by sn9 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:11PM (#12704517)
Psychologists don't even use it because of how completely useless and scientifically invalid.

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personalit...

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