Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020)

Re:Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluff... by ghaff on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:21AM (#29725003)

Myers-Briggs is mostly [1] pseudo-scientific BS. And the results may not even be very stable from one test-taking to the next.

[1] Mostly. MB and more recent variants can be useful for reinforcing that different people have different worldviews and tendencies. There's also some evidence that different groups, such as different professions (like programmers), do tend to test differently as a population and that has certain implications when they're creating products for a different population (like the general public) that tends to test differently.

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Re:Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluff... by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:33AM (#29725124)

> There's also some evidence that different groups, such as different professions (such as programmers), do tend to test differently as a population

Doesn’t that imply it isn’t all bullshit?

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Re:Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluff... by ghaff on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:53AM (#29725296)

Hence "mostly." But if you look at the full Myers-Briggs summary, it slots people into one of 16 categories and then has a nice little writeup describing people in that category. Which is a long way past acknowledging that some people are more comfortable dealing with abstract mental models than others or that some people want to deal with facts over emotions.

The actual science, such as it is, is also rooted into Jungian psychology which doesn't really have a lot of actual science behind it.

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