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> the subject matter borders on pseudoscience

The subject matter being "fundamental worldviews"? How is that pseudoscience?




The "Big Five personality traits" is apparently scientific and meaningful, while the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is pseudoscientific nonsense that people used post to their Myspace.


The two correlate pretty well, in the end, it's just one fewer dimension. MBTI's problems are in large part how it was conceived and how it's presented, being rooted in Jungian psychology and being presented as a firm binary when each axis more or less has a bell curve distribution, making it inconsistent from test to test. But the underlying categorisation and test methodology isn't very far off, even if it's by accident, and I think people only hear about the problems and throw out the baby with the bathwater.


Ironically this is exactly what the article points out in the trait that primarily sees frameworks as the result of power struggles as opposed to a meaningful progression to the truth.


I suppose out of any two things, one is closer to the truth than the other. Take any two giant piles of crap, and you can order them in a way that suggests they're part of progress.




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