She wrote it in 1930. Do you realize how many untrue & ridiculous things many ppl believed in 1930?
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Replying to @upine @arthur_affect
They used the belief structure that lead them to write MBTI to write said novel, so it's actually directly related, and not some tangential other stupid belief they had.
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Replying to @MJWhitehead @arthur_affect
There's research re: if MBTI measures what it is said to, by correlating it w other tests etc. It has a certain degree of validity & reliability. Most tests used have no valid scientific research into them. But that doesn't mean all the purposes ppl use MBTI for are appropriate.
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Replying to @upine @arthur_affect
MBTI's *correlation* with other, actually reliable tests does not mean the underlying methodology is good. It means they happened to stumble on some useful types while under very erroneous assumptions.
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Replying to @MJWhitehead @arthur_affect
Stumbled upon or not, they are useful types. Few tests have 100% accurate assumptions. Scientists, including social scientists, hopefully live & learn-- as do all of us in our society. At times tho, ppl go bkwards--as we currently are bc of the propaganda so many voters believe
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Replying to @upine @arthur_affect
So, some small elements of MBTI are useful- mostly it can tell you a degree of introversion/extraversion. But you can basically ignore your type information, and the DEGREE of I/E is the important bit, not which "type" you are, and it also bundles this up with neuroticism.
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Replying to @MJWhitehead @arthur_affect
Still better than the vast majority of personality tests out there.
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Replying to @upine @arthur_affect
Yes, viewed as a personality test it's very good in comparison, eh? But that's not how it's sold. It is sold as a rigorous psychological assessment with application to business and insight into inter-type dynamics. It's frankly surprising they haven't been sued for those claims.
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Replying to @MJWhitehead @arthur_affect
Well, Isabel Briggs Myers died 40 yrs ago. So she's not marketing it. And not responsible for the actions of the people who are--racist though she may be. Didn't know about the novel til I read this thread.
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Replying to @upine @MJWhitehead
Myers got the Centre for the Application of Psychological Type off the ground in her lifetime and set up the Myers-Briggs Foundation to continue her work She was the one who started selling it to corporations and schools to be used on entry-level employees and students
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There's a direct throughline between her work and her successors', nothing has been perverted or corrupted, it's always been the same grift
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MJWhitehead
Wasn't aware of that. It shouldn't be used for those purposes.
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But we're immersed in predatory capitalism, and many areas of scholarship are corrupted by it.
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