you can decide what you want about the research on your own time. freud wasnt a great person, and his views on women were really not great at all! but we dont discredit his findings just because he was sexist. you can think what you want about him, but thats not whats being told.
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mbti isnt perfect science, and many people have problems with it. hey, dont use it if you dont want to. but, to say this is “hush-hush knowledge” is just not true. being part of history or science means you go down for what you did and not for who you were.
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you arent supposed to be taught the kind of person someone was. how much do you know about any of the greek scientists or about pavlov as people? thats just not the point of science. if newton was a racist, we wouldnt stop believing in gravity just because of who he was.
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now, granted, gravity and mbti are incredibly different things scientifically (and some people wouldnt consider the latter science at all) but you understand the point im trying to make.
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tldr: you are supposed to be taught about contributions not the person that made it.
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not to excuse a person for their actions but thats just not the point of research
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Actually, I would argue that it is precisely the job of a historian to A) place the creation of a test or system in context, which includes exploring who created it and why, and B) to raise the question of whether bad creator views render the results of the creation suspect.
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100% agreement here. Claiming that the biases of the creator of a psychological inventory are irrelevant misses the issue so wholeheartedly that I have to question whether the statement is even being made in good faith.
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Boy howdy are you wrong
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Id argue that in this case, it does make a difference. Sure, Newton could be a racist and that wouldn’t impact his ability to describe the laws of physics. But MBTI is specifically about categorizing people, and so how they viewed certain people could have an impact on that
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