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The validity comes from the fact that all the data is provided by the test-taker himself.
MBTI is survey research. In survey research, when we talk of validity, it has nothing to do with the test-taker himself.
Here's what types of validity are *ahem* valid for methodological knowledge regarding the validity of a survey tool:
Measurement Validity Types
I've never heard of any validity with regards to the test-taker. The one that comes closest, when you want to use the test-taker himself/herself, is actually called reliability, more specifically, test-retest reliability.
Test-Retest Reliability
The generalization part comes when it takes your personally stated preferences on these external stimuli and makes guesses about how you will respond to other, similar external stimuli in the future. It's behavioralism, and it IS a generalization because it takes a small sampling of your own behavioral preference and then tries to infer information about other situations.
Um, not quite. For your edification, what generalizability refers to in survey methodology.
Generalizability theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia