The Flaw in How We See Ourselves: Debunking the Myth of Personality Types
@jorgebscomm for @empowervmedia [Image credit: frontiersin.org ] S omewhere between your third and fourth scroll this morning, an algorithm quietly decided what kind of person you are. It inferred your openness to new ideas from what you paused on, your emotional stability from what provoked a reaction, your social orientation from how you interact with others' content. Technology companies have been doing this for years, using personality models built by academic psychologists over decades. The real science behind those models — not the pop-psychology version — is far more nuanced and useful than any personality type has ever suggested. Understanding it matters for how we know ourselves, how we judge others, and how we resist being profiled by systems we didn't consent to. "Personality is not a fixed label. It is a set of tendencies: measurable, partially heritable, genuinely predictive, and far more context-dependent than any online quiz has ever acknowledged." ...
