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The "Big Five personality traits" is apparently scientific and meaningful, while the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is pseudoscientific nonsense that people used
by card_zero 2y ago
The "Big Five personality traits" is apparently scientific and meaningful, while the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is pseudoscientific nonsense that people used post to their Myspace.
- corimaith 2y agoIronically this is exactly what the article points out in the trait that primarily sees frameworks as the result of power struggles as opposed to a meaningful progression to the truth.
- card_zero 2y agoI suppose out of any two things, one is closer to the truth than the other. Take any two giant piles of crap, and you can order them in a way that suggests they're part of progress.
- rcxdude 2y agoThe two correlate pretty well, in the end, it's just one fewer dimension. MBTI's problems are in large part how it was conceived and how it's presented, being rooted in Jungian psychology and being presented as a firm binary when each axis more or less has a bell curve distribution, making it inconsistent from test to test. But the underlying categorisation and test methodology isn't very far off, even if it's by accident, and I think people only hear about the problems and throw out the baby with the bathwater.