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 @upine
"Very good" compared to what, Buzzfeed quizzes? Nobody actually pays hundreds or thousands of dollars to go through a self-help program based on other personality tests or to become licensed to run such a program themselves Companies don't use them in hiring and assessment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MJWhitehead
Yes, very good compared to most psychological tests-- but not for the purposes it's been used for.
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Replying to @upine @MJWhitehead
No, it isn't, I would argue it's substantially worse than Big Five or DISC (though I don't like tests in general)
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Even just the framing of it as a bipolar scale between "Thinking and Feeling" etc means it's making a more sweeping claim than tests that just claim to measure "How much of this quality do you have from 0 to 100" even if it's mathematically equivalent
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That, plus the notorious vagueness and changeability of the categories MBTI purports to measure, is why MBTI "types" are so unstable People will turn up wildly different responses if you catch them in a different mood or setting or phrase the questions slightly differently
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Unsurprisingly, the one category MBTI gets people talking about more than any other, "introvert vs extrovert", is the one that's now famous for no one being able to decide which one they are and people being in the verge of just throwing it out (everyone's an "ambivert")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MJWhitehead
Some ppl are ambiverts-- but most are not. Introversion doesn't mean you never need ppl in yr life or can't do public speaking. Extroversion doesn't mean U need zero time alone. There are many misunderstandings re: what these traits are.
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Still, U R correct that most purposes for which the MBTI is used are not purposes for which it has been proven to be valid.
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