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Similarly alchemy era had its phlogiston, pre-relativistic physics had ether and elan vital, modern physics has dark matter. The presence of dubious elements is not the problem. It’s pretending they’re NOT dubious.
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Or worse acting like empirical noise can make meaningless concepts meaningful. Ambiguity cannot be resolved by increasing empirical certainty. Higher resolution image won’t resolve the duck-rabbit illusion into clearly a duck or rabbit.
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Philosophically rigorous fields progressively clean up ontology. Philosophically sloppy and/or dishonest fields pretend increasing certainty about ambiguous things creates better truth.
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So why do I like Myers-Briggs better? Because given that what *can* be measured is nebulous-dubious-ambiguous, it’s actually useful to explore foundations conceptually rather than empirically. To go beyond using sketchy surveys to point to weasel words that point to some “traits”
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There’s an entire “geocentric” theory of personality under the hood. Not just words pointing at each other and statistics. It’s at least *trying* to be about the world. It’s wrong in the right way. It has the right kind of history going back to Freud and Jung.
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I mean a tradition of interest in the actual object of interest (the brain in this case) open to anyone to join/study and join the tradition of, as opposed to priests of some institutions interested in something else, like retaining power
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The point is the wannabe gatekeepers there have no real power over the tradition Disagree on Myers Briggs. Whatever the origin story the conceptual scaffolding holds up in interesting ways on its own merits.