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"SMARTNEWS" "The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless" promises explosive insights such as: "[...] and statistical analysis reveals even
by heisenbit 10y ago
"SMARTNEWS"
"The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless"
promises explosive insights such as:
"[...] and statistical analysis reveals even data produced by the test shows a normal distribution rather than bimodal, refuting the either/or claims of the MBTI."
It is really surprising that aggregation of a number of binary questions results produces a normal distribution. In all my experiments with a randomly selected coin from my purse I got something close to bimodal - not.
MBTI may be flawed, overused and too simplistic. However simplifying statistical arguments down to that level is not the way to advance science.