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by amelius 3716 days ago
So you are saying that when Google or any other MegaCorp would know your MBTI type, they would know nothing about your personality? Or in other words, that MBTI type has zero correlation to personality traits? Sorry, but that does not make sense.

Another way to look at it is the following. I'm not a machine learning expert but I suppose MBTI is simply a way to cluster maximum correlation vectors into a compact representation. This representation happens to contain 4 bits of information (since there are 16 MBTI types).

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I won't say there is nothing that can be concluded but the classification itself is problematic since there is definitely some spillage over common traits of the personalities. I can have more belief if the assertion is more alone the lines that you are xx% "abc" type.
The full test does give you that.