Re:Jessica Livingston
by sneak on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:18PM
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MB is astrology for nerds.
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Astrology has a one in twelve chance of accuracy since the only variable is birthday.
With the four discrete variables in MBTI, I can type people with 90% accuracy after a conversation.
The buckets themselves are also false, so no.
Re:Jessica Livingston
by mattnewton on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:57PM
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Isn’t this often just the Barnum effect, especially when ground truth is established by asking people if you are right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect