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Re:In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) by at_a_remove on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:49AM (#26291007)
Imagine you have a job that is highly detail-oriented. Perhaps data must be perfect or a number of steps must be followed but checking the employee's work might be cumbersome.

You have two applicants, roughly equal. One scores higher on conscientiousness ...

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Re:In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) by sosborn on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:20AM (#26291117)
Do you believe that measurement is actually accurate?
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Re:In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) by at_a_remove on Sunday February 28, 2021 @02:34AM (#26291429)
Well, we were discussing the utility of such a test. I would assume that by the time we got to the point of utility, we would have agreed that the thing itself was valid. There's no point in discussing the utility of a thing that didn't work.
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