Gee, I've been telling my students that if a measure isn't reliable it can't
be valid.  Perhaps I need to review those concepts.
Rick

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> De-bunking would, it seems to me, mean that one has shown that the
> target of the de-bunking is not the "truth".
> But the MBTI is in the realm of personality analysis.
> I think personality is at best an extremely fuzzy concept.
> If this is true, how then can one debunk the MBTI?
>
> Presumably, the only thing one can show is that it isn't a reliable
> measure.
> I don't think one can make a very strong case that it isn't valid.
>
> Not only that, but the MBTI is well received by business I think. That
> is, it "works" for their purposes.
> Is it fair? Is it true? Is it valid?
> These questions all seem to me beside the point.
>
> In a free-market economy, let the buyer beware.
>
> --Mike
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