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You might want to be careful with that. The Myers Briggs test is most likely pseudoscience and you shouldn't base any important-ish life decisions on it. Medio
by Odin78 10y ago
You might want to be careful with that. The Myers Briggs test is most likely pseudoscience and you shouldn't base any important-ish life decisions on it.
Mediocre source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5pggDCnt5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5pggDCnt5M
- RUG3Y 10y agoI am skeptical. I don't take it as fact. I did find it interesting that the INTP profiles I read described me with painful accuracy, which is why I've begun exploring this stuff a little more. Still, it's good advice to take everything with a grain of salt.
- wolfgke 10y ago> I am skeptical. I don't take it as fact. I did find it interesting that the INTP profiles I read described me with painful accuracy, I don't claim you are wrong, but be very careful about the Barnum/Forer effect when reading such descriptions: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect BTW: I'm personally rather immune to this effect, since I'm not a person who fits "the profile of a typical citizen".
- espeed 10y agoSee Dario Nardi - "Neuroscience of Personality" | Talks at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfhQTbcqmA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfhQTbcqmA
- tkxxx7 10y agoCheck out some of Jung's work. Myers was a little misdirected, but she was not wrong.