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by Odin78 3483 days ago
You might want to be careful with that. The Myers Briggs test is most likely pseudoscience and you shouldn't base any important-ish life decisions on it.

Mediocre source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5pggDCnt5M

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I am skeptical. I don't take it as fact. I did find it interesting that the INTP profiles I read described me with painful accuracy, which is why I've begun exploring this stuff a little more. Still, it's good advice to take everything with a grain of salt.
> I am skeptical. I don't take it as fact. I did find it interesting that the INTP profiles I read described me with painful accuracy,

I don't claim you are wrong, but be very careful about the Barnum/Forer effect when reading such descriptions:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

BTW: I'm personally rather immune to this effect, since I'm not a person who fits "the profile of a typical citizen".

See Dario Nardi - "Neuroscience of Personality" | Talks at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfhQTbcqmA
Check out some of Jung's work. Myers was a little misdirected, but she was not wrong.