Quote (Lightman @ Sep 22 2016 06:29pm)
they are a scientific observation, despite whatever men's health trend topic you've read lately.
myer-briggs is still the most consensual theory in behavioral psychology, albeit grey af.
but remind me, who the fuk r u again
Somatotypes and Myers-Briggs are both heuristic systems that are both shown to be inaccurate and unsuitable for systematic prediction of outcomes. They're almost in the same category as phrenology. Sure thing, both are valid observations and you can categorize the observations arbitrarily, but they don't live up to what they promise. I don't read men's health magazines, get your argumentation in check.
The most consensual is the Big Five, and i'm pretty sure about that. Even this categorization is arbitrary, but the biggest difference is that it's reliable and repeatable, which the Myers-Briggs is not. Same people score different combinations depending on circumstances. Hell, i've scored both introvert and extrovert on different occasions. That's pretty bad even though i'm just one anecdotal example.
Myers-Briggs asks you something, and essentially gives you what you answered in an altered form. There's no new information there, yet people just wonder how they end up being perfectly described after answering, without realizing they actually just gave these descriptions themselves by answering the questions.
This post was edited by Neptunus on Sep 25 2016 04:45pm