Re:In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)
by runarberg on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:35PM
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> It's not super predictive, but not to be honest, nothing else in psychology is either.
This is an often cited myth. Examples of psychological effects with high predictive powers include:
* The law of stimulus and response
* Priming
* Classical conditioning
* Reinforcement learning, which further includes positive reinforcement, punishment, etc.
* Plenty of neural models that predict behavioral anomalies after brain trauma.
* Plenty of social psychology models that predict how people behave inside groups.
* Heck even the linguist Noam Chomsky made an accurate psychological prediction based on cognitive psychology in how people acquire grammar.
I think you might be confusing psychology with psychometrics which is a sub-field of psychology which holds that any psychological effect is measurable and that operational definition is a good way to establish these effects. The whole field of psychometrics has a serious problem with predictive powers of their theories. Other modern fields of psychology on the other hand has a good track record of making theories that hold good predictive powers.
This is an often cited myth. Examples of psychological effects with high predictive powers include:
* The law of stimulus and response
* Priming
* Classical conditioning
* Reinforcement learning, which further includes positive reinforcement, punishment, etc.
* Plenty of neural models that predict behavioral anomalies after brain trauma.
* Plenty of social psychology models that predict how people behave inside groups.
* Heck even the linguist Noam Chomsky made an accurate psychological prediction based on cognitive psychology in how people acquire grammar.
I think you might be confusing psychology with psychometrics which is a sub-field of psychology which holds that any psychological effect is measurable and that operational definition is a good way to establish these effects. The whole field of psychometrics has a serious problem with predictive powers of their theories. Other modern fields of psychology on the other hand has a good track record of making theories that hold good predictive powers.