http://www.researchgate.net/profile/...3bb71de240.pdf
here's some science which seems to indicate NP (MBTI) types are more generally represented among the gifted.
this makes sense to me, astends to have an academic, universalist quality to it, while
types (like myself) tend to be caught up in our own schemes.
I'm a skeptic myself, but I think to say it has NO scientific applicability is wrong. I took a PSY 110 course recently, and they still include MBTI in the survey textbooks. Just like Freud is still in there, and as I'm almost certain there are psychoanalysts who apply Freud's "unfalsifiable" ideas and improve the lives of mentally ill people.
that's what interests me: do things work? if heuristics work, whether they come from science or bureaucracy or religion or tradition, I think they are at least worth considering. Jungian psychoanalytics seems to help identify gifted kids (even if there are no actual types) and might help them get in a better position than shitty, one size fits all public education. Is it the magic cure to all your problems which will give you a multitude of friends and the love of your dreams? fuck no. but it's a tool amongst many


tends to have an academic, universalist quality to it, while
types (like myself) tend to be caught up in our own schemes.
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