[HN Gopher] The gloves are off, the pants are on
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       The gloves are off, the pants are on
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-09-06 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | breckenedge wrote:
       | When I started getting into reading pop psychology in my mid-20s,
       | I was very lucky to have a dad who reminded me to be skeptical of
       | this stuff, despite it all sounding very confident. Doubly lucky
       | to have a brother-in-law who eagerly criticized Gladwell's
       | "Outliers."
        
         | smitty1e wrote:
         | I was very appreciative of the Scott Adams podcast[1] when he
         | pointed out that any story or study that is too "on the nose",
         | that is, hits our confirmation biases too perfectly, needs to
         | be approached with extra caution.
         | 
         | [1] https://www.scottadamssays.com/
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | Similarly fun to have to spend days at work doing "Myers Briggs",
       | "Clifton Strengths" or variations thereof. Then have it woven
       | into unrelated conversations for months until the novelty wears
       | off.
        
         | jessriedel wrote:
         | Fwiw, the Big 5 (OCEAN) personality inventory is one of the
         | more robust findings in psychology (much more so than all the
         | examples from the blog post)
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
         | 
         | and the four Meyers Briggs "types" are quite correlated with
         | four of the Big 5.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
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         | Biggest issue with Meyers Briggs is that it gives people the
         | impression that types are discrete (i.e., traits have a bimodal
         | distribution) when in fact the traits are normally distributed.
         | And of course it's just out of date since MB was developed
         | decades ago and is entrenched in the business world.
        
       | xcdfgvd wrote:
       | Finished up at the proctologist's office?
        
       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | On typing: "other, intangible process factors, e.g., the
       | preference of certain personality types for functional, static
       | and strongly typed languages" stands out.
       | 
       | As he says, you _may_ be able to show a slight benefit, but I
       | would bet that if you controlled for that  "personality type",
       | the strong and replicable result would be "people who program in
       | a language they like do a better job than those forced to use one
       | they don't like."
        
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