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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by gnaritas on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:39PM (#12696265)
> I assure you with large enough sample size you will find some correlations though.

I can correlations the drop in pirates with a rise in global temperature, so what... correlations don't mean a damn thing by themselves, that's just data-mining bias.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by nonbel on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:20AM (#12698386)
No, it is not data-mining bias. There really is a correlation. It is real, but realizing that has no usefulness at all.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by gnaritas on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:43PM (#12704304)
The correlation with pirates is real too, that's my point, correlations don't mean anything. Only causation is meaningful. The only use of a correlation is as a starting point for finding causation.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by nonbel on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:53AM (#12706208)
Actually... I think causation may largely be a red herring as well. Our most successful models really do not incorporate it at all. They are in the form of F=ma or PV=nRT. There is no causality there.
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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by gnaritas on Friday October 14, 2016 @09:12PM (#12712200)
Models are final solutions; causation is how you end up finding those final solutions: causation is understanding, it's vitally important.
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