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Myers and Briggs would argue that your personality doesn't change, but you do learn new things about your personality.

Listening is simply a conversational skill and has nothing to do with meyers-briggs personality type.

Myers Briggs personality test, which was a standard practice once is now irrelevant in the tech industry and its a good thing.

They were comparing it against literal chaitin-briggs style graph coloring (this was IBM, and IBM obviously did it that way, since IBM invented it).

The point is that most of HN identifies themselves - on the Myers-Briggs scale anyway - as introverts.

Yeah, and then in the comment section the author starts to talk about his love of Myers-Briggs, which illustrates exactly my beef with Myers-Briggs.

At a minimum it means that, for any two people with the same type indicator, they answer Myers-Briggs questions in similar ways.

Like identifying as intro- or extroverted - there's self-tests for that (Myers-Briggs or something).

You can never take a Meyers-Briggs test and have the test fail to categorize.

The article mostly just reiterates the strengths of introverts, which you can get from reading about Meyers/Briggs personality types or similar sources.

In another company exercise, done after a Myers-Briggs session, they split the I's and E's into groups.

That, at the core, is what we’re attempting to do." In Meyers-Briggs terms, I'm a Perceiver, not a Judger.

That, at the core, is what we’re attempting to do." In Meyers-Briggs terms, I'm a Perceiver, not a Judger.

As a Myers-Briggs "intuitive", maybe I "fit" with people having a similar outlook and values, while "sensory" folks fit with people who've had similar experiences and hobbies.

I don't know anything about the Meyers-Briggs scale beyond what's stated about it in the wikipedia entry, but the result isn't surprising to me at all, as I can definitely sympathize with your propensity for missing "obvious" features in your surroundings.

I think the article may have provided evidence for the opposite of what the author seems to believe: "My results confirmed what Briggs had described: unique words and total words have risen over time, but the ratio has gone down significantly.

The point is that most of HN identifies themselves - on the Myers-Briggs scale anyway - as introverts.

Yeah, and then in the comment section the author starts to talk about his love of Myers-Briggs, which illustrates exactly my beef with Myers-Briggs.

At a minimum it means that, for any two people with the same type indicator, they answer Myers-Briggs questions in similar ways.