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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by btilly on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @05:14PM (#12696457)
Yeah, everything is correlated with everything, and a principal component analysis will quickly sort out the source.

For example what songs you like is tied to what media you watch which is tied to what politics you have. And most of that is tied to how liberal vs conservative you are.

It doesn't take many principal components to make most of the remaining correlations very small.

But correlations between astrological descriptions and personality start off small. So small that astrology is not a useful starting point to understanding people.

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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by nonbel on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:17AM (#12698377)
>"astrology is not a useful starting point to understanding people."

I never said it was. My problem is with the prevailing philosophy of doing statistical tests on whether there is exactly zero effect/correlation, ie testing for deviation from noise/chance. It is the most destructive idea ever pushed by mathematicians.

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