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Anyone here who have had experience(s) with the 4 temperaments, the 5 temperaments, the Keirsey's temperaments or MBTI?

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Basilisa Marie

I'm a phlegmatic-melancholic and an ISFP.  Not sure about the "five" temperments.  But I second EmilyAnn.  What'd'you mean? :)

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Giving it some though, Myers-Brigg is not very useful as a measure of anything. The statistical validity is questionable. The research is heavily biased. The distribution in the scales shows a normalised distribution, not supporting the polar "type" concept. It assumes total participant honest and doesn't control for socially desirable answers (which various other measures do). It has shown a very low reliability. It is prone to confirmation bias. 


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Basilisa Marie

Giving it some though, Myers-Brigg is not very useful as a measure of anything. The statistical validity is questionable. The research is heavily biased. The distribution in the scales shows a normalised distribution, not supporting the polar "type" concept. It assumes total participant honest and doesn't control for socially desirable answers (which various other measures do). It has shown a very low reliability. It is prone to confirmation bias. 


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Very true.  Lots of people say that most "S" people are "mislabeled" as "N" people because most questions about S/N have a very heavy N bias.  If people do it, it's better to focus on "cognitive functions" aka extroverted feeling, introverted perceiving, etc.  

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ithinkjesusiscool

What's wrong we the "infallible" MBTI? :'(
And if you studied psychilogy you should know more about the word "experience" than I do!!!
Btw, some of us study psychology, especially personality dissorders, to see how crazy we humans are. I guess Catholics don't like the idea of personality dissorders when you have demonology! B-)

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What's wrong we the "infallible" MBTI? :'(
And if you studied psychilogy you should know more about the word "experience" than I do!!!
Btw, some of us study psychology, especially personality dissorders, to see how crazy we humans are. I guess Catholics don't like the idea of personality dissorders when you have demonology! B-)


What's wrong with it? You mean aside from all the issues I've already mentioned? It's far from infallible. 

"Experience" is vague. I am a psychologist, not a linguist. 

There is an inherent danger in studying such subjects outside of an academic setting. Either a) you take everything at face value and fail to appropriately critique b) attempt self-diagnosis or c) fall into pop psychology that has no real validity or reliability. Or all three. 

Personality disorders are perfectly valid medical diagnoses. But the DSM is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and is as flawed as any other science. 

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PhuturePriest

A lot of the people here are introverted, for some reason. I am definitely extroverted. If I had five or six friends in my town I doubt I would ever be on the internet, but alas, all my friends live a respectable distance away.

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