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In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

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Re: In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

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tl;dr is: this holds up as well as the "big 5" mathematically, but the naming avoids unpleasant terminology and the usual binary bucketing makes discussion quick and easy

Right now the tl;dr is 404 Not Found.

This now works:

https://dynomight.home.blog/2020/06/12/in-defense-of-meyers-...

I think they just happen to be reorganizing at the moment, without leaving a redirect.

Re: In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

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Its good as a one-off. Then you feel all warm and fuzzy as you go "oh yeas this makes sense".

I did an experiment using these tests. I ran them every week. Did a different test from a different website. Very little consistency at all. I came to the conclusion it was a waste of time.

Re: In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

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An interesting thing about introversion/extroversion and testing: Assuming that I remember details right from a class I took over twenty years ago, taking caffeine before a test improves performance for introverts but not extroverts (unless I misremembered and it's the other way around). It's a remarkably strong result and one of the few strong results in experimental personality research.
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