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I think most people do this by instinct, and have self-made buckets for people. It's really error-prone and not very accurate, and ends up leading to a lot of

I think most people do this by instinct, and have self-made buckets for people. It's really error-prone and not very accurate, and ends up leading to a lot of prejudice. And then they write articles claiming that things like the MBTI are useless because their self-made buckets are perfectly fine most of the time. And I'm a self-made bucket kind of person. I didn't get from the MBTI what you did, but I can at least see how it could be useful for some people. (Or maybe even all people, if they took the time to really understand it like you have.)

czbond 4y ago
> I think most people do this by instinct, and have self-made buckets for people. It's really error-prone and not very accurate, and ends up leading to a lot of prejudice. I agree with you. I noticed I held myself and others to a very high standard, and could not understand why (to me) their irrational decisions didn't let them meet my standards. Studying MBTI for me, helped give me some rational way to understand the proclivities and possible thinking of another to help me understand how people have different strengths/weaknesses and life journies.