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Facts change the minds of XXTPs, if you subscribe to MBTI.

• readthenotes1 5y ago
  IIRC, the facts have shown MBTI to be hokum
  • hans1729 5y ago
    It has no validated scientific basis, but that doesn't mean that the concept of cognitive functions is flat wrong, does it? The discipline of psychology is somewhat broken since the 60s; something like a model for personality just doesn't get you a long way within the system of reward-incentives in academia, especially if the discipline still recovers from a significant loss of reputation some 60 years ago because of behaviourism. I don't want to ramble or off-track this thread, mbti just seems like a really interesting tool, one that has allowed me to get profound insights into minds I'd not have had without it - validated insights.
    • ezekiel68 5y ago
      I feel that you may be, unintentionally, reinforcing the point of the OP.
  • ncmncm 5y ago
    I've seen those facts. They don't begin to address what MBTI is about. Astrology is hokum, too, but it randomizes who gets which bit of advice on which day, and gives everybody different advice at different times. That birthdays and planets have no meaningful role beyond randomization does not lessen its usefulness at keeping people who follow it out of ruts. MBTI is a lesson in other valid ways to perceive and act in the world than what you are used to. Other people do, and it would be a poorer world if they didn't.
  • lmm 5y ago
    Nope, and I don't understand how this myth arose or keeps popping up. MBTI is not perfect but it has decent test-retest reliability and decent correlations with other measures.