satt comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

1 Post author: David_Gerard 01 October 2012 05:54AM

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Comment author: satt 05 October 2012 07:47:10PM 0 points [-]

Also this feels like it can't possibly be that useful since many of the questions have different answers in different situations.

Mmm, I noticed this too when I filled out an official MBTI. It probably comes up quite often; I remember the test having an instruction to answer each question with the choice that most often applies to you, even if sometimes it doesn't.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 October 2012 08:15:29PM 1 point [-]

I did the exercise once of filling out an MBTI on a five-point scale and calculating weighted sums, rather than a binary scale. My resulting classification didn't change.