Comments on: People are waking up!!! https://henze-associates.com/blog/2013/09/20/cal/people-are-waking-up/ 'cause you know you're curious... Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:59:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Cal https://henze-associates.com/blog/2013/09/20/cal/people-are-waking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-18709 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:45:19 +0000 https://www.henze-associates.com/blog/?p=2207#comment-18709 Hi Dave,

True – and, the foundational validity of a model based on Greek and occultic mythology pretending to be psychology does tend to scale its usefulness…

]]> By: Dave https://henze-associates.com/blog/2013/09/20/cal/people-are-waking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-18691 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:27:15 +0000 https://www.henze-associates.com/blog/?p=2207#comment-18691 In engineering, most real-life (i.e. complex and poorly understood) situations are modeled. Engineers are compelled to remember that, “All models are wrong, some are useful”.

MBTI is a model of complex and poorly understood personality traits. MBTI (along with the models used to build bridges, cars or space shuttles) is wrong. But that doesn’t mean it is not useful.

The trouble always starts when a limited degree of usefulness fails to be interpreted in the context that the fundamental trait of the model is that it is wrong. Add in a healthy dose of self-serving, commercially driven hype and the model’s usefulness can only suffer.

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