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I read a lot of personality test books, including some of Jung's work, when I was a teenager. The tests don't work. You can get almost as good results by randomly picking a type and seeing if your personality matches -- if the technique is sold to you well enough, it will seem to match, simply due to your own imagination.

Or, these days, the imaginations of marketing people and product designers and their algorithms that recommend us the dumbest, most irrelevant, grossest junk.

How many times did each of you see YouTube recommendations for that Johnny Depp trial? It was 50% of my recommendations one day, like 16/30 videos, and I never clicked on one or anything like it.

So much for profiling



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