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Re:Jessica Livingston by cm2012 on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:20PM (#36452942)
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.

Re:Jessica Livingston by sneak on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:36PM (#36453117)
The buckets themselves are also false, so no.
Re:Jessica Livingston by mattnewton on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:57PM (#36453355)
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