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Re:Show HN: My Resume 2.0 by hluska on Monday May 28, 2012 @11:10AM (#4033683)
Be careful. The criticism was:

Putting your Myers-Briggs personality type in your CV suggests to me that you probably believe in horoscopes, too. At the very least, you think it's relevant somehow and reflects positively on you (or why would you include it?). It's twee, self-indulgent, and pseudo-science - I want more from my developers.

This poster is not saying, "everyone processes information the exact same way." Rather the poster is saying, "The Meyer Briggs type inventory (as currently administered) is extremely flawed. Therefore, putting your type on your resume is akin to putting your horoscope."

In that regard, the original commenter is correct - the description of INTP is not useful as the test itself is fundamentally flawed. While there is a whole lot of science that says, "We are all different," MBTI doesn't do a very good job of quantifying these differences.

Re:Show HN: My Resume 2.0 by wamatt on Monday May 28, 2012 @11:16AM (#4033699)
>Putting your Myers-Briggs personality type in your CV suggests to me that you probably believe in horoscopes, too.

I have a problem with the credibility of that claim.

Re:Show HN: My Resume 2.0 by wamatt on Monday May 28, 2012 @11:24AM (#4033742)
>the description of INTP is not useful as the test itself is fundamentally flawed.

Another logical fallacy. The test and a person's test result, are irrelevant to a persons actual personality type. It may or may not correlate. That is all we can say.

For example a person could test as an ESFJ, whilst in reality actually uses the cognitive functions, Fi Se Ni Te which correlates with an ISFP personality type.

And anyone that thinks everyone has the same personality type or thinks the same way, or that different personalities do not exist, is simply delusional.