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by bradleyjg 3543 days ago
Interesting. Looks like extroversion is the best correlated (.74) which I suppose makes sense. But nearly as strong (.72) is intuition/sensing to openness to experience, which I would not have predicted. Conscientiousness to judging/perceiving is only .49 and agreeableness to thinking/feeling is only .44. MBTI has no good correlate for neuroticism.

I'm no statistician, but "is approximately as valid" looks to be overselling the situation.
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wutf 3543 days ago
You're no statistician or psychologist. Those loadings are huge.
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AstralStorm 3543 days ago
0.5 correlation means it is maybe perhaps correlated given Emax view of the statistics. For normal variates you should aim for R=0.95 at least. Both MBTI and Big Five are approximately normal variates.

Also correlation is a linear operator which is not particularly sensitive to anything nonlinear. Use a good statistical test instead.

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