I think at this point, you're just being exceptionally rude to those who devote much of their time and effort to this research. I would recommend sending an apo

I think at this point, you're just being exceptionally rude to those who devote much of their time and effort to this research. I would recommend sending an apology. > You seem to be putting words in my mouth. I didn't claim OCEAN wasn't empirically based, nor did I claim that it is used for diagnosis. I said the DSM is used for diagnosis of BPD. I offered OCEAN as an example of the general lack of rigor in the field. Read my post more carefully. Also, you did claim that it was used for diagnosis. Read your last set of sentences: > Consider for instance the current system of categorizing personalities: the "Big Five" system (OCEAN). Why is this still a thing? Any sort of primitive GBDT would almost certainly perform better than this, so it's a mystery to me why these crude systems are still being used in the mental health industry in 2018. I would assume "these" refers to a set of systems inclusive of OCEAN considering it's referred to as the context of the paragraph a few sentences back.