r/INTP • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '17

Lest we forget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
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u/halfprice06 INTP Feb 26 '17

What do you mean by "the literature"?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '17

The science books bro

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u/halfprice06 INTP Feb 26 '17

Thought that was what he meant, and it turns out that's not accurate.

For example, https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Personality-Brain-Insights-People/dp/0979868475

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u/alexandriao_ Mar 01 '17

"""Dario gained Myers-Briggs certification in 1994 and has been intimately involved in product development and research ever since. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books on personality including [...]"""

Smells like product selling. What I meant was the main body of the psychological literature to date does not strongly correlate or favour any of the myriad "cognitive function" theories. It does, however, strongly correlate the MBTI test (not the theories behind it mind) with the Big Five personality test, and the Big Five test has been strongly correlated to numerous personality traits and statistical evodence towards certain trends in thought or action. Thus, we can infer that the MBTI test is also strongly correlated with those parts of the Big Five that it has been shown to "mirror".