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Why is it the job of the skeptic to prove that a profiling technique does not have predictive power? Shouldn't you have to prove that it does?
by taco_emoji 10y ago
Why is it the job of the skeptic to prove that a profiling technique does not have predictive power? Shouldn't you have to prove that it does?
- amelius 10y agoBecause it is very hard for a test not to have predictive power. For example, companies fruitfully extract predictive power from whether a user clicked a link or not. Facebook extracts predictive power from whether users like videos, et cetera. So why shouldn't an elaborate test that was developed to have meaning, not have any predictive power?
- AstralStorm 10y agoNot having predictive power means it is not better than chance at predicting any X. There are results that show MBTI has no predictive power against job performance. It has not been tested against any other measure. That said, MBTI shows bad orthogonality in the factors in its response. This suggests the factors are ill defined.
- amelius 10y ago> There are results that show MBTI has no predictive power against job performance. Could you provide a reference?
- AstralStorm 10y agoProvided by another person in this thread already.