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comment by veen
veen  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My customers are my friends. Ummm.... NO, THEY'RE NOT!

Good job completely dismissing arguments because you don't like the author.

I mean, it's not a brilliant article, but he does make some good points. Such as:

    The Myers-Briggs assumes that who we are is consistent from one situation to another [...] according to some studies, more than half of those who take the test a second time end up with a different score than when they took it the first time. Since personality is continuous, not dichotomous, clearly some people who are borderline Introverts or Feelers one week slide over to Extroversion or Thinking the next week. And since personality is contingent, not stable, how we answer is affected by which circumstances are foremost in our minds when we take the test.

    “Every individual is an exception to the rule,” he wrote; to “stick labels on people at first sight,” in his view, was “nothing but a childish parlor game.”




user-inactivated  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Completely dismissed the article because I don't like the author (or the subject). Never read the actual arguments. Well, except the ones you just quoted, which are ironic because

    “Every individual is an exception to the rule,” he wrote; to “stick labels on people at first sight,” in his view, was “nothing but a childish parlor game.”

this is what he spends all of his books doing, so that people with money to burn will burn it on him.

veen  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's effectively the same though.

I mean, I also don't like Malcolm Awfulbad, but I have to really hate an author to completely dismiss all their past and future work.

user-inactivated  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really hate him.

kleinbl00  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I circledotted every comment in this thread.