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Re:As a female engineer, I am not diversity by zwieback on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:01PM (#18303010)
I just finished "The personality brokers", fantastic book, which explores how E<>I entered popular culture via the Myers-Briggs test.

When the E<>I spectrum was subjected to more rigorous analysis it turned out it may just be a metric of "talkativeness" and not really related to the Jungian concept.

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Re:As a female engineer, I am not diversity by bootsz on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:05PM (#18303053)
Hmm.. Talkativeness seems way too narrow to me. The theory of deriving energy externally vs. internally makes the most sense to me personally. Though it would certainly correlate with talkativeness. But I'm not an expert on the matter :)
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Re:As a female engineer, I am not diversity by thanatropism on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:19PM (#18303190)
Yeah but then you have to define energy.
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Re:As a female engineer, I am not diversity by Jach on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:50PM (#18303489)
Extraversion has had proper studies with the Big 5 traits, it's more than just "talkativeness". But some of the seeming conflicts come from the 5 traits being able to be factored further into 10 aspects; for extraversion it splits between "enthusiasm" and "assertiveness". See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818974/ or http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.513...
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