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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   We were having fun with MBTI at work so I tested myself for the first time in a while.

   I don't take it seriously, it's self-reported, MBTI is notoriously inconsistent and the archetype interpretation is horoscopes for numbers-inclined people, but like horoscopes it can be a good conversation and self-reflection starter.

   Please don't use MBTI in job interviews or in recurring HR evaluations. Neither has happened to me, but I hear it happens in the States.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:06 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @sotolf See top post.
   • Sotolf (sotolf@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:07 UTC Sotolf

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     @clacke You know that MB is as accurate as your horoscope right?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:08 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     From the looks of it, these coordinates 3, 2.75, 3.375, 3.625 seem to be on a scale where 2 is far left, 4 is far right and 3 is the tiniest bit to the left of center? I guess the center can't be allowed as each aspect is a binary. So I guess that could be said as 0% I, 25% S, 38% T, 62% P
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:08 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I took a #MyersBriggs test and for the first time I'm surprised by the result, but on reflection maybe it represents something real.

     #MyersBriggsTypeIndicator #MyersBriggsType #MBTI
     #INTP #ISTP

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:09 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Interestingly enough I tested as ISTP this time, that's a first. Pretty close to the middle there on the S/N scale, and I have an idea of which answers did it, and I didn't really like how those questions were phrased.

     Still, I find it intriguing. I can't help but think that this accurately reflects an underlying change in how I see myself and the world. Some of the questions I know I would have answered differently ten years ago.

     openpsychometrics.org/tests/OE…

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     For me personally the result has always fluctuated between ENTP and INTP, with more INTP in my later years. Reservations again for the validity of MBTI, but *NTP tend to be very common among programmers, so there is very little surprise there.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     MBTI has multiple issues:
     1) self-reporting
     2) lack of orthogonality between traits
     3) lack of rebustness and repeatability

     but even more:
     4) treating bell curves as dichotomies
     5) Barnum descriptions of archetypes
     6) exaggerated claims of applicability

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 16:19:14 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @sotolf With all this in mind, in my particular case I have been testing consistently N my whole life and the fact that I'm now testing S rhymes with my ambition to mature and become more well-rounded and open to other perspectives than my own, moving this trait toward the center.

     Maybe it's self-fulfilling, maybe I'm answering as the person I'd like to be, but I'd find that interesting too, that my ideal would be moving toward my meta-ideal, my "ideal of an ideal", my intellectual idea of what I'd like my intuitive, emotional ideal to be.