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I'm not saying that MB was a bad idea at the time. It was genius to classify people on a few principle components.

The problem is, the factors are dated (Big 5 is much better), it's polarising (black-and-white descriptions of people, rather than a gradated scale), and it's widely used by HR workers, managers, educationalists, and basically every other soft science department except psychology.

It's like people in the field are still using steam engines, while researchers are building petrol engines.



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