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		krick on Jan 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by ... Exactly. That's why questionable MBTI/socionics are useful to people and Big-5 is not. And either of them are not real, actual 6-σ science anyway.

projektfu on Jan 16, 2020 [–]

Very little in biology reaches a high level of confidence, let alone in psychology.

mattkrause on Jan 16, 2020 | [–]

And that’s because biology and psychology are incredibly, stupendously more complicated.

projektfu on Jan 16, 2020 | | [–]

Exactly. There would be almost no results if we needed r^2=0.9999 or some such standard.

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