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Are all psychometricians INTx's, then? This sounds like exactly the kind of over-conclusion that bothers people about personality testing and its applications.

• mewpmewp2 6y ago
  Of course not. It's all probabilistic. I feel like the people who think MBTI and personality tests don't make sense are themselves the ones making those over conclusions and they can only think in binary, black and white way, when it really could be something like INTx is likely to be overrepresented in psychometricians fields by 4x, ESFJ might be underrepresented by 5x, etc. So for instance maybe there's 6% INTXs in the world, but in psychometry field there happens to be 30% INTX representation. Nobody is making the claim that ALL psy
  • cb321 6y ago
    A simpler way to think about it might be "How would I assign a p-value to the personality type?" Once you have that answer, all your "over-representation" stats should, naturally, trim out (or otherwise down-weight) the poor p-value personality assignments (any such over-representation stats that you have heard very likely do no such filtering).
  • cb321 6y ago
    Or it could be these tests literally do not even discriminate 99% of the population if the measurement error is near the size of the mode width. See my other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26292915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26292915
• pseudalopex 6y ago
  Never hearing about other types probably says something about their social circles because amateur psychometricians come in other types too.