> It's tough to think about how we can reduce personality to four axes that are immutable as you grow and change. I don't think that jives with MBTI. Even the

> It's tough to think about how we can reduce personality to four axes that are immutable as you grow and change. I don't think that jives with MBTI. Even the harshest critics of MBTI would acknowledge that MBTI doesn't preclude plasticity and "type development." I think MBTI just says that you have a dominant proclivity along certain axes. You can re-take the test at different lags to test the hypothesis for yourself. The MBTI argument goes that you'll develop additional competencies. Re: article, I didn't find the authors arguments compelling. Not that you need a "cognitive science" background, but the author's an English Lit. prof who makes hand-wavy arguments against MBTI. I suspected clickbait due to the title, and I was right...