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"... My guess is that language snobs are INTP, whereas Blub programmers are more INTJ ..." Do you really believe in the "psycho-babble" Myers-Briggs claims it
by bootload 18y ago
"... My guess is that language snobs are INTP, whereas Blub programmers are more INTJ ..."
Do you really believe in the "psycho-babble" Myers-Briggs claims it tests? If you can show me any peer reviewed scientific studies that back the claims made by these tests I'd be more than happy to read them and judge for myself. Until then MBTI theories are as believable as any other pseudoscience.
- wheels 18y agoI think a lot of people put too much faith in Meyer-Briggs, but I think psychologists tend to use it more than anything as an estimation tool just to get an idea of where to start with someone they're not familiar with. They can also be useful for describing some common personality memes, but a lot of times people mistake the categorizations as being predictive rather than descriptive and that's where they tend to quickly get into psycho-babble territory.