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by callesgg 1205 days ago
It's a categorical system. It categorises people in to groups on dimensions. Dimensions that are ultimately defined by the questions that give the category.

You can measure people on many dimensions, and all dimensions that are not truly random will correlate with some aspect of the persons life.

Interestingly, some of the dimensions of the MTBI correlate with dimensions of the "Big 5".

Introversion - Extroversion => Almost the same dimension as in Big 5.

Intuitive - Sensation => Correlate strongly to Big 5 Openness

The longer textual descriptions of the MTBI categories that one can find online are "made up" so they could indeed be said to be a type of pseudoscience.