[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I swear these two's real job is as a honeypot for adventurism.

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A number of common critiques of Jungian typology and the MBTI are often voiced in no uncertain terms by people who have comparatively little knowledge about these fields.

Notably, the authors don't give their own qualifications.

In terms of empirical evidence, types don’t exist. Human traits are distributed on a bell curve, not as two camel humps.

True.

People who take the MBTI multiple times often come out as different types (Low Test-Retest Reliability).

True.

MBTI descriptions contain vague and flattering statements that anyone would agree to (Forer Effect).

True.

wow.

However, as we will discuss below, the MBTI is not an end in itself. It is an attempt to quantify C.G. Jung’s cognitive theory empirically. And as most people who have grappled with Jung’s theory will readily attest, his concepts are by no means as straightforward as the Big Five’s ideas that someone who delivers his work on time is ‘conscientious’ and someone who talks a lot is an extrovert. Jung’s concepts of the cognitive functions are not only staggeringly complex, they also stand in a dialectical relationship to each other where they alternatively imply, negate, and complement each other.

In other words, the complexity that goes into the definition of Jung’s cognitive functions is well beyond what we are currently able to prove or disprove empirically. Since Jung’s cognitive theories were not laid out in a format suited to empirical analysis, the advocates of Jung’s ideas can always claim that the fault lies not with the concepts but with the process of translating and interpreting the concepts into a format that will suit empirical testing.

Saying that the theoretical basis of MBTI is beyond empirical analysis doesn't help their case.

You'll probably get just as much out of this test from the same site: https://www.idrlabs.com/pusheen/test.php

Why Use This Test?

  1. Free. This test is provided to you free of charge and allows you to obtain your scores related to the characters from the Pusheen universe.

  2. Statistical controls. Test scores are logged into an anonymized database. Statistical analysis of the test is conducted to ensure maximum accuracy and validity of the test scores.

  3. Made by professionals. The present test has been made with the input of people who work professionally in psychology and individual differences research.

It's made by professionals!

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

MBTI makes the fundamental assumption that each personality axis is bimodal, and pushes people to one side or the other. Actual research shows that people tend towards the center.

The whole test is pseudoscience made by non-psychologists and propped up by "research" from organisations that profit from the test.

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure you have to enroll yourself but are legally required to do so (but it's been a while since I turned 18)

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago

28, but 32 is also good

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I can't actually make it because I'm on mobile, so imagine a perfectly edited version of the "isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" meme.

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

"inconvenient" is my biggest problem with it. Just use a single format for every work and add some html classes so I can scrape it easier.

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

It's not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Transphobes get the wall, guys

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Someone needs to sit them down and tell them, guys, your delusions of racial and cultural superiority are literally getting you killed.

No it's getting Ukrainian soldiers killed. Journalists, politicians and military leaders are safe.

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Do you think this is the type of idiot who doesn't realize this includes Obama and Biden or the type of idiot who actually thinks they're tankies?

[-] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

A tankie is someone who supports the Soviets sending tanks to stop the Hungarian revolution and other other use is made-up bullshit.

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