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Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless by noughtme on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:07AM (#35340384)
Not a statistician, but just because the results of the test are predictable, I’m not sure the test is useful. Meaningful tests/models have predictive power. Is Meyers Briggs capable of predicting anything? (Repeatedly and reliably)
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Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless by Aeolun on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:38AM (#35340854)
Eh, if my boss listens to the description of my type and approaches dealing with me with that in mind I’m pretty much guaranteed to be happier.
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Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless by HPsquared on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:12AM (#35340474)
If it's stable over time, surely that allows some predictions to be made.
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Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless by rgavuliak on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:11AM (#35340464)
It's not even an issue of statistics - yes the traits might exist, and people might fit into it, but that doesn't mean it's predictive of any outcome related metric.
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