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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Replying to @upine @MJWhitehead
Well look even before all of this started, Jung himself cut off his correspondence with her because he didn't like where her ideas were going Saying this idea of a "shortcut" to analysis by putting people into quantifiable boxes made her a dangerous busybody
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MJWhitehead
I certainly would agree that it is not a shortcut to analysis or any type of psychotherapy. Jungian ideas themselves have their flaws. And they have been used to advance predatory capitalism, Right Wing politics & racism. See Jordan Peterson.
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Replying to @upine @MJWhitehead
It's not a defense of Jung it's saying that even someone as high-handed and arrogant about the power of psychology as one of Freud's disciples found Myers too arrogant for his tastes
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You could say that this was because he was a sexist elitist who was troubled by the authority a mere housewife was claiming in making judgments of others But honestly, no, he was pretty clearly correct
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