@freakonometrics @dbc3

Personality tests and train passes that also require a person identify themselves, and also to ScAmazon, CloudGlare and Akamai.

Smart cities — only their people are not smart.

#smartCities #personalityTests

The descriptions are generally vague and all of them are flattering. This called the Barnum or Forer effect. A fortune teller, Astrologer etc makes a vague statement that could apply to many/most people. The listener is pleasantly surprised to hear things that apply to them. Result they start to see themselves reflected in the test.

Finally when these tests are used inside organizations to hire etc, they can weed out neurodivergent people.

5/5

#Myths #MyersBriggs #PersonalityTests

…Example I might score 55% Thinker and someone else 40%. I will be bucketed as Thinking and the other person as a Feeling. Yet we're closer together, than we're to the extremes of our buckets.
- MBTI ignores Neuroticism - a trait that is an important predictor of career, health and romantic outcomes.

Why do people think the results of the MBTI tells themselves something meaningful about themselves or their team?

4/6

#Myths #MyersBriggs #PersonalityTests

- Poorly selected boundaries - 16 Personality types doesn't come close to covering all of humanity, so these 16 are arbitrarily selected buckets.
- Median split to select the boundaries. People close the median might further away from the people they're classified with than the people just the other side of the median.
…

3/6

#Myths #MyersBriggs #PersonalityTests

- Not Stable/Repeatable - with a reliable test I should be able to give the test once and a few weeks later give you the same test and get the same result. Myers Briggs not so much.
- Predictive Value - a useful test should predict outcomes in the real world. MBTI has no predictive value.
- Forced Questions - the test asks questions that force you have a binary answer, yet human personality is better measured on a continuum.

2/6

#Myths #MyersBriggs #PersonalityTests

#MyersBriggs #PersonalityTests is popular and that is about the only thing it has going for it. In reality it is no better than rolling die and assigning people a personality profile based on the die roll.

- Carl Jung's ideas are at the base of the test. Unfortunately Jung's work has never been empirically tested. Hint when your base level construct is unsound you might have a train wreck on your hands.

1/6

#Myths

I have applied for jobs at large corporations; never been hired

But I have always been struck by how the hiring process is designed to impress on the candidate that their main job, if hired, is to be subservient in every possible way both to their boss and to the company

eg, use of briggs meyers
https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless

#IQ #Personality #PersonalityTests #BriggsMeyers

Personality tested
Looking for insight on who we are
Questions yet to answer

#personalitytests #hybridwork #worklifebalance #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/business/remote-work-personality-tests.html

The Evening Post: Personality Tests Are Out of Control
You don’t really know yourself until you’ve taken a 113 question personality test.  It's A Southern Thing talks about all those personality tests you can take for yourself.

https://youtu.be/2q4q_CBdoFs
https://geekalabama.com/2023/02/28/the-evening-post-personality-tests-are-out-of-control/
#TheEveningPostStuff #It'saSouthernThing #PersonalityTests #PersonalityTestsAreOutofControl #SoTrueY'all #YouTube

TITLE: YouTube Pseudo-Psychology, Algorithm Traps, and How I Got Set-Up
to Look Like I Cheat

My wife and I share a YouTube Premium subscription.  A few weeks ago I
was scrolling through YouTube recommendations when I came across a video
on different male personality types.

"Sure", I thought, "I'm a therapist -- why not check it out". So I
watched the video as it invited me to try and decide which type of male
I was as they described them.  I noticed they made the "Sigma Male"
sound the most attractive -- which was a bit odd -- but I thought little
more about it.

A few weeks later (tonight), up popped a video on 10 characteristics of
a "Sigma Male". I was curious, so I watched it.  They spent the whole
video making "Sigma Males" seem like super heroes.  Suspicious now, I
went to the channel these videos were coming from to look around.

I was displeased to see that 10% of the videos were on male personality
characteristics, and *90% of the videos were dedicated to how Sigma
Males Get Women.*  Video after video of how to bag yourself a blonde or
brunette.  Yuck.

You can guess where this is going -- now our shared YouTube
recommendations list is full of how-to videos on attracting hot women. 
The uncool thing is I have never watched any such video to deserve
this.  The really uncool thing is my wife will be spotting this
tomorrow.  Happily -- she is very understanding and not the jealous type.

Besides -- she can always look at my view history.  I'll also be sending
her this message.  :)

Is there actually a valid psychological theory outside pop psychology
including "Sigma Males"?  When I Google it, I get lots of pop psychology
websites, including something called the "Incel Wiki".

Now I do feel slightly ill.

-- Michael

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
APPENDED NOTE:

I sent the original note above out a few days ago on a national psych
listserv and it engendered some relevant psychological discussion on how
AI and algorithms effect the mental health of our clients.

Happily my wife thought the note and situation above hilarious (I
thought she might).

Part of what was so troubling to me here was the clear funneling process
being executed on vulnerable young men on YouTube:

STEP 1: Grab guys just interested in learning about themselves. (Or
psychotherapists interested in personality systems.)

STEP 2: Make "Sigma Males" sound like the most attractive type so they
are identified with. (Lonely geeks are recast as desirable lone wolf
types with all the skills of alpha males.)

STEP 3: Game the YouTube algorithm so the next recommendations are how
"Sigma Males" get women.  (I decided to bail at this point so I am not
going to view what is being recommended. Judging by the fact that "Sigma
Male" connects in Google searches to Incel websites, I shutter to think...)

[It's possible that "Sigma Male" is a term from a legitimate personality
system, but if so, its been at least partially co-opted by pop psychology.]

A discussion commenter stated: /"The mental health challenge is to help
people become aware of how AI is taking over their lives so that they
can manage the AI rather than have the AI manage them."/

My new resolve to periodically create new YouTube profiles to get out of
old tracking algorithms is one example of an adaptation.

*People need other ways to escape tracking to get out of boxes* -- like
the old BBS (bulletin board systems) that let you read (or not read)
every community comment from every poster without algorithms tailoring
your newsfeed.

*People need tools to recognize when they are being herded into specific
ways of thinking.*  Like many of our political silos.  Like my original
example above of an interest in male psychology potentially leading to
Incel-like "education" on how to be a "Sigma Male" who gets all the women.

*Businesses need some government regulation in what tracking they can do
-- in all environments, but especially the free ones.*  People may need
to return to PAYING for their information sources so they themselves are
not the product.

Ironically, it was GOOGLE, whose "I'm feeling lucky" button below the
search engine field used to take users to a random website somewhere on
the Internet.

*We are now in need of actively maintaining personal ways to randomly
escape our information bubbles so as to better recognize them.**
***
-- Michael

*Michael Reeder, LCPC
*
*Hygeia Counseling Services : Baltimore / Mt. Washington Village location*
*410-871-TALK / michael(at)hygeiacounseling.com*

#psychology #socialwork #psychotherapy #research #incel #AI
#artificialintelligence #youtube #mentalhealth @psychology
@socialwork @psychotherapists @psychiatry
#Algorithms #personalitytests @silos

#personalitytests which #aol anonymized search query log user are you
#datasecurity

These things are usually nonsense but my result here is actually really fascinating.

I'm diagnosed #autistic and we are often thought to have no #empathy. But I actually score above average in everything *except* cognitive empathy.

I feel emotional empathy strongly & I act accordingly. But I struggle to verbalise said feelings and put words to them.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #PersonalityTests

https://www.idrlabs.com/multidimensional-empathy/test.php

I'm surprised that Hume and not Epicurus is my top match. At least I'm not a fascist like Plato. #philosophy #personalitytests https://www.idrlabs.com/philosopher-personality/test.php

In the spirit of #Openness and
#Introductions / #DataScience #Visualization

…Do other people ever find #personalitytests oddly satisfying? 🤷🏽‍♀️
I’m a fan of the #big5personality.

ESPECIALLY when you assign specific colors to the domains (metaphorical fit) AND give the most prominent characteristics the most visual weight.

🎨💥📊💯

I am once again trying to communicate why it's so fucked up to believe in the various personality tests and rigid mass cultural self-conceptions that bill themselves as "apolitical" (especially when you're someone who doesn't believe in the gender-binary or the patriarchy).

https://mailchi.mp/f7767eb2d021/im-scared-says-ralph

#writing #astrology #personalitytests #thefivelovelanguages

new #personalitytests: SBI VALS (http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/vals/ustypes.shtml) and Claritas Segments (https://claritas360.claritas.com/mybestsegments/#segDetails). Check out how they see your money pockets!

#personality #marketing #quiz #consumption #consumerism