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RE: How MyersBriggs Brings Me Joy

in #gathering7 years ago (edited)

This is a reply to saunter (above) but it seems to have landed in the wrong place. Anyway

Scientific consensus is an oxymoron and is by it's very nature un-scientific.
Even if 100% of scientists agree on something that doesn't mean it's true, correct or valid.

Science is based on evidence and a single piece of contradicting evidence is all that's needed to falsify any scientific claim.

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You are right of course, but MBTI was dismissed in number of papers and there is no single one effectively defending it's psychometric characteristics and utility.

Well I wasn't defending the validity or otherwise of MBTI. In fact I never even heard of it before. But when I saw scientific consensus being brought up it was a red flag for me, since this misconception has been so widely used (misused) especially to convince the public that Global Warming is a thing when in fact there's little or no evidence to support it.

Besides, Psychology is not a science in any meaningful sense of the word. Just a mishmash of conjecture and opinion which could only be debunked by more of the same. Which is to say it can't be debunked. No more than pink unicorns or big-foot etc.