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> Keep in mind that in practice this classification is not perfect, as in you cannot just bucketize people into Gosh that's such an INFJ thing to say! /s[ubtl
by DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> Keep in mind that in practice this classification is not perfect, as in you cannot just bucketize people into
Gosh that's such an INFJ thing to say!
/s[ubtle]
- nkrisc 2y ago“INFJ”, that’s from that workplace astrology, right?
- _odey 2y agoYou would be surprised, but companies actually pay hard money to consultants to do these astrology readings and present them to shareholders as a "measure of workforce compatibility".
- nkrisc 2y agoI had to do something like that once at work. I picked random answers for all the questions.
- dangsux 2y ago[dead]
- _odey 2y agoThat's the easy part. Did you also have to do a 1 hour interview with the consultant after the questionnaire? EDIT: also an hour long group meeting after the interviews to be presented your collective results?
- osigurdson 2y agoMost people know how to game these now. Want to be a "leader"? Choose extroverted type answers. Get the red patch.
- jhbadger 2y agoI think it was more popular before that book ("The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing") came out. Not that I ever believed it before that, but I assumed it was created by actual social scientists rather than two untrained amateurs as is the case.
- _yb2s 2y agoMeyers briggs is not “astrology” - it doesn’t claim to predict anything. It categorizes how people already consciously see themselves with Carl Jungs archetypes. The main point of the archetype concept is to then explore the part of you that is different from how you see yourself- your “shadow” for the purpose of personal development. It’s not mysterious, mystical, or claiming to be science- it’s just a very simple set of arbitrary categories to give you a different perspective on yourself, and point you in a direction of dealing with things you would otherwise avoid because it’s uncomfortable to think about. For example if you see yourself as “rational” and reject “emotional” thinking, it can be helpful to actually explore your emotional side rather than push it away. The concept itself is a useful and simple thing, but is mostly misunderstood and misused… I don’t see how an employer testing employees would be useful. As someone who has read Carl Jungs books, but has not encountered it in the workplace, it annoys me to see people talking derisively about it from a place of misunderstanding.
- chongli 2y agoIt’s astrology because it takes unimodal distributions and splits them into two groups above and below the mean. This is a cardinal sin in statistics because it implies the existence of distinct populations that don’t really exist and so any predictions you try to make are no better than a coinflip.
- rbanffy 2y agoThey just said MBTI doesn’t predict anything. It’s a measurement tool, with limitations, and you should use it understanding those. Much like an IQ test, or a having or not a PhD, it doesn’t hold much predictive power.
- Joker_vD 2y agoIf you can't make any useful predictions with it then whatever MBTI measures (or it believes it measures) is... also useless?
- 2y ago