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 Most science is a bunch of quackery 🤷🏻‍♂️ 
 Okay. If we go with that, things are looking pretty bad for Myers-Briggs. 

I.e., when quacks say it's a bunch of quackery you know things are really bad! 
 For a real personality assessment I’d use the big five, but myers Briggs has some use in large group settings I’ve found. 
 FFM is certainly more accepted in the scientific community, but is not without critics. 

It fails to predict peoples behavior in specific contexts (ie people change their behavior in each context and therefore their 'personality' is not fixed by determined by the context - ie the context is a more powerful influence, and so predictor, of behavior). 

If it cannot predict behavior then it's not a valid theory of behavior. Ie, it's quackery. So you win that point again. Lol.

"...it appears that the currently popular FFM should be replaced with an expanded and altogether more inclusive model of dynamic personality structure. "
Boyle, GJ. p21

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27826750_Critique_of_the_five-factor_model_of_personality 
 Climate scientist are quacks. Most college professors are quacks. Economics is total Quackery and maybe the most corrosive of them all.

Why? NONE of these 'sciences' are based on a verifiable mathematical formula. So there is always interpretation.

A 'formula' has to be rooted in Physics for it to be validated. Even then, we often don't understand everything - like Gravity - we just assume it's there!

When it comes to the 'science' of the the mind, it's all Quackery - we really have no idea how the body or mind work (why we don't know exactly what to eat that is healthy and been wildly mislead on what is a healthy diet - it AIN'T grains, sugar, fruits, veggies - it's dark red meat, saturated fat, and eggs but we still don't know why exactly).

Luke - if Myers-Briggs looks bad, it's bad in general for all of the quack PhDs in the field of Psychology. It's all based on the SAME 'science' of nothing.

I find personality testing helpful for myself and others but absolutely not surprised when I find a personality type that does NOT fit their test type - although it's very rare. Maybe 1 or 2 times in my 40 years around these tests. 
 I was always in the climate change camp until around 2020 when I realized everyone in the government was a liar 
In any case, the Rogan Pod with Steven Koonen is what pushed me over the hump. 
Great listen. 
🧡👊🏻🍻 
 you might like Suspicious Observers... there is growing amounts of science papers about the influence and correlations between solar activity and weather, and he is constantly bumping new found papers talking about new data relating to this... i'm a bit addicted to the excitement of "wen next big CME and aurora" these days because they are clearly going to be fairly frequent for the next year or two, we have already had three major low latitude auroras