In fairness to @failed_buddhist, you don't need to see them as being at the same level.
That said, I hardly think MBTI is valid as such - and I say that as someone who used to be able to ascertain someone's MBTI type with very high probability (~80% agreement with test results.)
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It's a very good framing/storytelling device, but otherwise it has little going for it that Big Five doesn't do better and more reliably.
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Invalid for the sorts of things it's usually claimed to matter for (e.g. job choice, motivational structure...)
Big Five is different, I agree.
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Go ahead, find reliable behavioural correlates of MBTI types. It's extremely difficult, but if you can find something replicable I'll grant you that.
Most personality typologies suffer from this lack of clear relationship with behaviour, yet they make assertions about it...
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I won't go to the other extreme and claim that MBTI is snake oil - I'm just saying it has a very poor structural relationship with the things it wants to predict.
Doesn't make it *useless*.
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she was emotionally dead.
dunno which MBTI type that corresponds to.
perhaps @Failed_Buddhist knows.
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Interestingly, people with severely disordered personalities don't really seem to map to any personality type except stuff like enneagram, which is really woo-woo.
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I suppose it's rather valid to say that their disorder is a personality configuration unto itself.
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I'd say I'm curious, but given my own history with women I try to minimize the crazy to just what I can attract on my own.
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