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Re:I'm a Very Slow Thinker by brianpan on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:29PM (#35074995)
Myers-Briggs has been discounted by personality psychologists for quite some time now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

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Re:I'm a Very Slow Thinker by niknoble on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @06:02PM (#35075999)
Psychologists have been discounted for quite some time now.

But also, what would it even mean to say that Myers-Briggs is wrong? If you pick 4 personality traits and create 16 groups from them, then knowing someone's group will always give you insight into their personality.

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Re:I'm a Very Slow Thinker by brianpan on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:15PM (#35076619)
It's not wrong, it's not clinically useful in the same way that horoscopes are not clinically useful.
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