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Asking/testing someone "are you introverted" or "are you extroverted" clearly has at least some categorization value. The criticism is that the categories and t
by Fade_Dance 1y ago
Asking/testing someone "are you introverted" or "are you extroverted" clearly has at least some categorization value. The criticism is that the categories and testing methods we're not arrived at through any sort of rigorous scientific method.
So what you were left with is sort of an arbitrary way to divide people up, resulting in 16 fuzzy final categories.
Anecdotally I found it extremely accurate. The first time I visited "my" forum, all of forum avatars were bizarrely from shows and characters that I was close to, the topics were all exactly in line with how I perceive the world, etc. but I'm someone who maxes out all four of the categories in a specific direction. I also have some friends who are blended and have x in parts of their description, so at the end of the day it's sort of an arbitrary classification system, but better than nothing and extremely descriptive for, of course, the people who happen to fit these descriptions.
- cm2012 1y agoThough they were developed via theory, they strongly correlate to Big 5. Big 5 (or OCEAN) was produced by a data driven process. So I dont think that argument against it is credible, if anything it lends credence to the theory.
- shikotecknews 1y ago[dead]
- dragonwriter 1y ago> Though they were developed via theory, they strongly correlate to Big 5. Two MBTI axes might loosely qualify as strongly correlated with Big-5 axes, the other two are weakly correlated (<0.5) with Big-5.