Interesting Links for 04-06-2015

[andrewducker]

• No, MPs are not ‘giving themselves a pay rise’
  • (tags: parliament money UK viaJennieRigg )
• The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Bunk But I Don't Care
  • (tags: personality myers_briggs psychology )
• Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe? (And why the Unicode committee is very wrong.)
  • (tags: punctuation unicode )
• Loads of people

Comments

[andrewducker]

It's semi-hoodoo. It's clearly not random noise, because otherwise the results wouldn't correlate with things at all. But it's not _accurate_ and it's massively oversold. Handy for sparking discussions, largely.

Of course, being an INTP I would say that.

[andrewducker]

Well there you go - if the results were meaningless then I'd expect you to get a different, random, result each time :->

[simont]

Not necessarily! Being impossible to even measure consistently is not the only way something can be meaningless as a personality measure. If I determined your star sign 100 times, I'd get the same answer every time, but that doesn't mean it has anything to do with your personality.

[andrewducker]

True - but star sign is directly derived from date of birth, whereas MBTI is derived from a personality questionnaire.