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What does MBTI have to do with this article? This is a genuine question, since I can only read the abstract. If it's just the word introversion, my understandin

What does MBTI have to do with this article? This is a genuine question, since I can only read the abstract. If it's just the word introversion, my understanding is that introversion is still considered a meaningful concept, and its validity is not related to Meyers-Briggs at all.

throw4847285 2y ago
Because the other main term being used in the piece is Intuitive. When I see the words Intuitive and Introverted, I think, "Huh, that's halfway to an MBTI." Also, yes, introversion is a concept in more rigorous forms of personality science, but it's normally distributed. The idea of a sharp binary between E and I is very MBTI and complete BS. It's great for identity formation, bad for actually understanding human behavior.
- karaterobot 2y ago
  I see! I mean, as long as they define what they mean by introversion and intuition, and how each relates to their experiment, it's not necessarily an issue. If they're saying that their research depends on MBTI, I agree that's weird. I guess I am revealing how low my requirements for social science, and especially business management research are, along with my correspondingly low confidence in them. All of this, with the huge caveat that I can't actually read the whole article, so I'm just speaking in hypotheticals.
  - throw4847285 2y ago
    From what I understand, the psychology behind trait theory is still being developed, but the Big Five represents the best model that we currently have. Even for psychologists uncomfortable with rigid personality characterization (for good reasons), the Big Five can still be seen as some of the basic building blocks of human temperament. Introversion/extroversion is in both, but while in the MBTI it's a binary identity (as this article seems to posit), in the Big Five it's a spectrum that is close to normally distributed.

throw4847285 2y ago

Because the other main term being used in the piece is Intuitive. When I see the words Intuitive and Introverted, I think, "Huh, that's halfway to an MBTI." Also, yes, introversion is a concept in more rigorous forms of personality science, but it's normally distributed. The idea of a sharp binary between E and I is very MBTI and complete BS. It's great for identity formation, bad for actually understanding human behavior.

karaterobot 2y ago
I see! I mean, as long as they define what they mean by introversion and intuition, and how each relates to their experiment, it's not necessarily an issue. If they're saying that their research depends on MBTI, I agree that's weird. I guess I am revealing how low my requirements for social science, and especially business management research are, along with my correspondingly low confidence in them. All of this, with the huge caveat that I can't actually read the whole article, so I'm just speaking in hypotheticals.
- throw4847285 2y ago
  From what I understand, the psychology behind trait theory is still being developed, but the Big Five represents the best model that we currently have. Even for psychologists uncomfortable with rigid personality characterization (for good reasons), the Big Five can still be seen as some of the basic building blocks of human temperament. Introversion/extroversion is in both, but while in the MBTI it's a binary identity (as this article seems to posit), in the Big Five it's a spectrum that is close to normally distributed.