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    John Backus‏ @backus Sep 10

    I’m not a fan of introvert/extrovert labels. Personal reason: I reject it for myself like I do for political labels. Label yourself and you act the part, reenforcing it. Global opinion: It depends on the other people, whether they judge or encourage, and your past conditioning.

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      2. Erik Torenberg‏ @eriktorenberg Sep 15
        Replying to @backus

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        Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg
        1/ In 1999 Paul Graham wrote a essay called “keep your identity small” He said that the reason conversations about religion or politics, as opposed to baking or climbing trees, are so fraught with frustration is because they are at the core of someone’s identity.
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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 15
        Replying to @eriktorenberg

        Yes! This, plus a few other things like starting to hang out with @rsnous in 2013, convinced me to shift towards this preference

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      2. Max Tagher‏ @MaxTagher Sep 10
        Replying to @backus

        Also, like all aspects of Myers–Briggs, it puts people at either pole of what is really more like a normal distribution (if it can even be quantified).

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 10
        Replying to @MaxTagher

        It’s also a part of big 5 which is actually legit. But either way, like a lot of things in psychology I think it’s useful to measure but also we are probably measuring the effects of things which in this case might be more malleable than we think

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      4. Max Tagher‏ @MaxTagher Sep 10
        Replying to @backus

        If people's dating profiles start saying "I'm on the 65th percentile of introversion/extraversion" a la Big Five then I object less :P

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      1. Alex Svanevik‏ @ASvanevik Sep 10
        Replying to @backus

        Spot on. It’s really context-dependent. Consider: office, family dinner table, classroom, cocktail party, football field, first date, online games, language class, on the plane, ... Few people can be labeled equally intro/extrovert across all these arenas.

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      2. Matjaž Leonardis‏ @MatjazLeonardis Sep 10
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        Another problem with the label is that how open a person is often depends much more on the situation they are in than their personality.

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      1. James Ryan Moreau‏ @jrmoreau Sep 11
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        Learning about introvert/extrovert spectrums helps people understand how they can best perform in a world that doesn't necessarily conform to their needs. Being an introvert and trying to be more extroverted and labeling it as training is counterproductive and probably harmful.

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