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Are you by chance referring to the 16 Meyers-Briggs types? It's been claimed that it's less useful than it is popular: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Myers-Brig
by robluxus 5y ago
Are you by chance referring to the 16 Meyers-Briggs types?
It's been claimed that it's less useful than it is popular: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
- jimmyjazz14 5y agoYeah I don't think Meyer-Briggs has much standing these days.
- cassepipe 5y agoI am myself very wary of this kind of personality tests but the case has been made in an interesting article that I can't seem to find that it is a form of "syntactic sugar" for the (apparently?) more established Big Five model. Anyways, I think OP's conclusion that it is eye opening that people have their own emotional structure/pattern of behavior from how they grew up and that you can find resembling patterns in different people quite reasonable.
- dukeofdoom 5y agoYes I was. But I'm also aware of the Big 5 personality traits. Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Neuroticism and Agreeableness. Which people seem to statistically group with some low or high mix of these traits. Knowing that someone is more neurotic than 99% of other people, would seem on surface be useful in predicting how they might react to new or novel situations.