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The issue with most personality tests is not their objectivity per se. It’s that most have provably none despite being extremely prescriptive, asserting they do state truth and being used by other to make decision about you as if they were truthful. It’s even more infuriating because actually valid personality tests exist but are not used because they are marketed less and are more nuanced in what they state.

There is a famous precedent for a divination tool becoming a major piece of philosophy through being commented. It’s the I Ching. If you read it, you will see that the predictions it makes are always very vague. The value is in the large body of interpretations which extract from the text and its symbolism some always applicable precepts.




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