New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can we get a good theory of categorical personality types?
Ask HN: Can we get a good theory of categorical personality types?
2 by ErotemeObelus | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Look at the types of fundamental particles. There's no nice symmetric number of types of fundamental particles (like a prime power, or a highly composite number such as 72). Types that occur in the universe are usually a nasty number. All existing theories of personality types either come in nice prime powers (2, 4, 16) or they're continuous models (which are not useful for fixing yourself; someone in the Big Five whose dominantly agreeable or dominantly open to experience doesn't get a differently designed therapy from someone who is dominantly disagreeable or dominantly closed to experience). Is anybody else interested in designing a categorical personality theory that can be used to fix yourself or am I just a fool? If you are, I need you to get in contact with me. I need all the help I can get.
2 by ErotemeObelus | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Look at the types of fundamental particles. There's no nice symmetric number of types of fundamental particles (like a prime power, or a highly composite number such as 72). Types that occur in the universe are usually a nasty number. All existing theories of personality types either come in nice prime powers (2, 4, 16) or they're continuous models (which are not useful for fixing yourself; someone in the Big Five whose dominantly agreeable or dominantly open to experience doesn't get a differently designed therapy from someone who is dominantly disagreeable or dominantly closed to experience). Is anybody else interested in designing a categorical personality theory that can be used to fix yourself or am I just a fool? If you are, I need you to get in contact with me. I need all the help I can get.
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