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MBTI rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

1.5 mil. dollars easily.

Even in my best times I can't handle that much people or even remember them.

I'm INTP.

What's your type?

I guess Lemmy is filled with NT\NF types even more than Reddit.

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 16 points 11 months ago

I'm a Pisces.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The FLOSS community is full of ITs (no pun intended) regardless of N so no, probably not. Let me see. In a software company:

ISTJs are the guys dressing like civil engineers. They're generally busy quietly doing work -- especially maintenance, for which everyone would be thankful if they knew maintenance is being done. They generally keep out of banter but occasionally drop an absolute nuke, upon which people remember that they exist.
INTJs are easy to spot: They're the ones wearing all black in an attempt to not draw attention to themselves. Yes you heard it here facts don't care about your intentions.
INTPs look somewhat lost (as usual). Most common position within the team is mathematical oracle.
ISTPs like me make sure that you nerds aren't feeling sorry for yourselves. We mostly do that passively: Other introverts think we're extroverts and therefore cool.

Then, bonus introverts:

ISFP is a very capable coder as long as it's graphics or sound programming. Indispensable at every game studio, also excellent UX/UI devs. Like ISTP, often gets confused for an extrovert because of all that pazazz.
INFPs do exist. Kind of elusive how that works but e.g. Linus Thorvalds is one.
INFJs would be capable, but just aren't interested, they rather become teachers. You may be able to obtain one by promising TED talk opportunities.
ISFJ is not actually a programmer but feels very included doing the payroll and making sure there's enough coffee in the pantry. And making sure INTP eats something else but buttered noodles once in a while.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 27 points 11 months ago

Meyers Briggs is astrology for dorks.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah it is, but we like funny letters and numbers.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 11 months ago

You mean like calculating the relation between ♈ and ♋?

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

When there's an emoji for horoscope signs, but none for mbti signs, I know I'm living in the 1984.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

great sentence

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I don't like MBTI either, they've had a hundred years of opportunity to do science but never used it. They're a business selling coaching re-investing into marketing, not science. I'm merely using their abbreviations because they became a lingua franca.

MBTI being bunk doesn't mean that Jung didn't spot something real, though, even if he proved nothing and could only describe it fuzzily (he didn't even describe 16 types, but eight, based on primary cognitive function. In that rough model ISTPs and INTPs are one and the same which we definitely aren't). The whole of Psychological types is basically saying "hey guys there's something here we should have a look at it". Chapter 10 is the interesting one, the rest is... philology? It's the best proof he could muster back then give the man a break that was 100 years ago.

On the scientific front the best the typology community has right now is Juan E Sandoval's stuff, the pilot studies are quite promising but there's more theorycrafting to be done before applying for grants for properly-sized studies to then throw at the scientific establishment saying "prove us wrong".

In case of tl;dw: Consider embodied cognition, and following from that that cognitive operations are expressed outwardly by various gestures, suchlike, CT calls the lot of it vultology. Then make a taxonomy of markers, analyse a lot of video marking those things and throw statistics at the data, what you get out of that is bimodal distributions, showing that there's actual differences between people (that is, unlike Big5 axis which don't have bimodal distributions). Make a twin study, observe that twins share vultological clusters, strongly suggesting that those clusters are innate. Flank by psychological questionaries establishing correlations between the vultological clusters and self-reported cognition.

You can say that you're sceptical but if you say that that's not doing science then I don't know what to tell you, either.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Ironically, the best thing done to MBTI in the later years is 16personalities test. It's crude, it's stupid, but it did promote the idea and had this well-designed avatars, so it brought many people on the path of self-discovery.

But making it a science? Everyone was more occupied by selling it, than researching it.

There're also Socionics, an exUSSR bastard that rewire many things in MBTI, and is too focused on the idea of pairing types: https://mysocio.ru/ I find it a little deeper but more cringe.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

16personalities is Big5 dressed up in MBTI terminology -- yes Big5 has a good methodology, but it doesn't even try to measure the stuff that Jung was getting at, if you get an "I" on 16personalities that means you rank low on Big5 sociability which just isn't what introversion is. Big5, more or less, can tell you how other people, society in general see you as. You probably know that you're sociable or not, Big5 can give you a very precise place on the bell curve, and you may or may not know whether you're neurotic, which can be very helpful. But it just doesn't have anything to do with cognition, and Big5 results very much aren't innate, which Jungian types are supposed to be.

Overall, each time I see a type ending in -T or -A I automatically assume the thing to be a mistype. From my experience it's quite a bit worse than chance.

The avatars are cute though and the wider typing community has adopted them wholesale.