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Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by throwaway0asd on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:20PM (#32758589)
> What if they were using astrology?

Then it would be guessing just the same as using no metric at all. This is only worse if the candidate is so naive as to believe they are of superior consideration than the value of a simple measure.

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Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by kasey_junk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:42PM (#32758854)
Do we actually have any evidence that “when in the year you were born in” has worse statistical relevance than the admittedly weak relevance of personality tests?

If not (and I’ve not seen it) then the candidate is just stating a preference for not working with companies that are lazy intellectually. That’s not naive that’s sensible.

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Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by throwaway0asd on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:07PM (#32759141)
Yes, Bridgewater.
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Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by kasey_junk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:59PM (#32760094)
So far as I know Bridgewater has never published numbers on their traders based on the part of the year they were born in.

Do you have a citation?

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Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by cosmotic on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:24AM (#32761165)
It wouldn't be exactly the same. The difference is lazy AND ignorant instead of just lazy.
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