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It might bother you, but extroversion and introversion are both ends of a rigorously documented personality trait, one of the Big Five.

Everyone, (literally) is in one camp or another. Particularly stable people will sit around the median boundary, but will ultimately conform, even if slightly, to one camp or another.

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Yes, well documented in psychology, a field whose professionals even acknowledge as a psuedoscience, if a useful one.

>Particularly stable people will sit around the median boundary.

Ok, so you're saying it is more than just a boolean then?

It's scientifically observable and proven, far more rigourously so than the "feeling" of the original comment, (a heuristic we all use), so what are you getting at?

Are you suggesting that all of psychology, its documented research and phenomena is best dismissed because you decree it a pseudoscience? This is fallacious at best.

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