Coscott comments on Useful Personality Tests - Less Wrong

9 Post author: seez 11 February 2014 11:18AM

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Comment author: Coscott 11 February 2014 08:04:45PM 14 points [-]

Several people I know have said Astrology is surprisingly accurate.

You can't really depend on recommendations for this sort of thing, since there is a force (vagueness of the reports) which explains away the evidence of the recommendations.

Comment author: dougclow 15 February 2014 04:23:24PM 2 points [-]

If you happen to read your horoscope, or your Myers-Briggs personality type, or any similar sort of thing, and find that it fits quite well for you, I can recommend selecting a few others, not intended for you, and see if you can make them fit you as well. You can also use this technique with a credulous friend, by reading them the 'wrong' one.

For me this works well to undo the 'magic' effect. But then that's just the sort of shenanigans you'd expect from a truth-seeking Sagittarius or 'Teacher' ENFJ.*

  • I'm not a Sagittarius and don't get ENFJ on M-B tests.