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Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years. Would

Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years. Would have been interesting to test against the Big five instead ! [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-to-mbti-the-fad-that-wont-die https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/develop/mbti.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indian... [3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103 [4] https://aps.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-9544.1995.tb01750.x https://aps.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-9544.... [5] https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...

efavdb 4mo ago
I’ve noticed that people in my field tend to have relatively similar personalities and relatively similar MB categories (close to INTJ). That combo is relatively rare within the broader population. Given this consistency I don’t think we can say it’s pseudoscience in a strong sense.
gobdovan 4mo ago
Even if pseudoscience, it seems from the article that results almost always came back the same. If all AI models claimed their spiritual astrological sign is Libra, I'd still find it interesting enough to check out. So, I tried it too, ChatGPT came back INTJ. But Gemini Flash 3.1 claims ENFJ once, INTP another time... Maybe OP could share their prompt and we'd understand why the results were so consistent.
cameldrv 4mo ago
It correlates reasonably well with 4 of the big 5.
bernardjhuang 4mo ago
Just finished big 5 test here: https://zonted.com/posts/three-of-four-ais-same-person/ https://zonted.com/posts/three-of-four-ais-same-person/ Quite interesting! Opus / GPT / Gemini are all very similar and then Grok is the weird one :P

efavdb 4mo ago

I’ve noticed that people in my field tend to have relatively similar personalities and relatively similar MB categories (close to INTJ). That combo is relatively rare within the broader population. Given this consistency I don’t think we can say it’s pseudoscience in a strong sense.

gobdovan 4mo ago

Even if pseudoscience, it seems from the article that results almost always came back the same. If all AI models claimed their spiritual astrological sign is Libra, I'd still find it interesting enough to check out. So, I tried it too, ChatGPT came back INTJ. But Gemini Flash 3.1 claims ENFJ once, INTP another time... Maybe OP could share their prompt and we'd understand why the results were so consistent.

cameldrv 4mo ago

It correlates reasonably well with 4 of the big 5.

bernardjhuang 4mo ago

Just finished big 5 test here: https://zonted.com/posts/three-of-four-ais-same-person/ https://zonted.com/posts/three-of-four-ais-same-person/ Quite interesting! Opus / GPT / Gemini are all very similar and then Grok is the weird one :P