Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: MBTI and other theoretical stuff

[Ruddick, T.R. (RUDDICK]

I sure enjoy learning stuff that has relevance to and beyond cohousing on
this list--as our recent cats/communication/emotions vs. logic discussions
have given me.

So let me fire another salvo: the MBTI is an outdated unreliable personality
assessment.

The four factors of the MBTI were originally successed by Karl Jung (I like
him, really, our birthdays are identical...) and had no empirical basis.

In the past several decades, several psychologists have decided--based on
empirical data, not on anecdote and observation like Jung--that there are in
fact five personality factors, these are called the "Big Five".
Extroversion/Introversion is the only factor the Big Five has in common with
the MBTI.

If you want to get more information, look up Keith Harary and his Berkeley
Personality Profile.

And watch out for his nonverbals :-)
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