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by woohoojoo 2079 days ago
>- Personality is way more important than he makes it out to be. It can't just be broken down into 3-5 factors. This isn't a scientific process.

Eh, some would argue the opposite... (Probably hundreds or even thousands of psychologists & academic professors of psychology)

"In psychological trait theory, the Big Five personality traits, also known as the five-factor model (FFM) and the OCEAN model, is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits,[1] developed from the 1980s onwards."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

"Abstract We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults over a four-year period."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...

"The five-dimensional structure was robust across major regions of the world. Trait levels were related in predictable ways to self-esteem, sociosexuality, and national personality profiles."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002202210629729...

"Personality was related to career success controlling for general mental ability and, though adulthood measures of the Big Five traits were more strongly related to career success than were childhood measures, both contributed unique variance in explaining career success."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570....

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There's intense critique of the Big Five model within psychology, and with what we've learned about the reproducibility of psychology studies , I'd be shocked if those studies you linked were reproducible.