On: Typealyzer - Find Your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

[tokenadult]

That's the Forer effect, a very well replicated result in psychology,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect

and a very good reason not to believe Myers-Briggs type results, which have never been carefully validated.

[Alex3917 → tokenadult]

That only applies to the description of the typical person with that type indicator, which is different than the type indicator itself. I.e., it may be possible that the categories (E/I)(N/S)(T/F)(P/J) have some validity, without the descriptions being accurate.

[tokenadult → Alex3917]

How would you design a validation procedure for anything that is output by the Myers-Briggs test?

[Alex3917 → tokenadult]

I would start by creating really tight definitions. With the exception of the E/I factor, which has already been validated, I'm not sure if the other factors are well-defined enough to measure.