willeh

I thought this was common knowledge, some hobbyists even used to buy AMD products to try to make sure they didn't go bust.

You have a valid point regarding complexity as such. However, I don't think the model itself is useful at all. It is hardly more than a deck of tarot cards. People take the test, which of course has poor test-retest reliability, then they start applying the predictions to themselves getting caught up in a wave of confirmation bias.

I don't think it is useful to teach people that personality is a set of labels. We all have a intuitive understanding of personality, which is much deeper and gives a more nuanced picture.

Jungian personality types are not a good way to look at personality. Just having a number of categories fails to capture something so complex as personality. The Five-factor model of personality is much better in this sense as it places people on a continuum rather than attaching pseudo-scientific labels to people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_NEO_Personality_Invento...