Seymour
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There's a teaser announcement from someone who claims to have found real statistical evidence for type dynamics.
Evidence for Dichotomies, Whole Types, and Type Dynamics
Sadly, the teaser doesn't address the four other processes and where they fall. It's difficult to evaluate the claims made, especially since that it's using MajorsPTI (created by the author) and the results were arrived at via "complex regression and scoring methods."
Still, dubiousness aside, it would be nice to get some empirical evidence for type dynamics ordering, etc. There really hasn't been much empirical evidence that type dynamics exist, much less that any particular ordering of the 8 functions is correct. The full results will be presented at the APT Conference in August.
Also interesting to note they used the official MBTI function ordering (where the other 3 functions have the opposite orientation of the primary).
Evidence for Dichotomies, Whole Types, and Type Dynamics
Majors said:Leaving aside orientation and ranking, the number of different ways that eight items can be arranged is 40,320. If we go by pure guess, we have one chance in 40,320 of guessing right. We didn’t guess. We used the order that Jung presented and Myers called type dynamics. How did we do? Figure 1 shows the relative magnitude of the four dynamic processes for ENFJ. The other 15 types have exactly the same stair-step pattern. No borderline cases. No exceptions.
Figure 1. Distribution of the Four Type Dynamic Processes for ENFJ
We used the new Majors Jungian 8-Process Scores, derived from the MajorsPTI, to settle the question of type dynamics. The MajorsPTI shows the usual typological preferences, and, using complex regression and scoring methods, provides eight Jungian process scores.
Following Jung’s theory and Myers elaboration, everything turned out as hypothesized: order, orientation, and relative magnitude of each of the type dynamics processes, indicating access, development, and utility. All 16 types matched all dynamic attributes. Jung and Myers made perfect predictions. It turns out that one graph shows all. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.
Sadly, the teaser doesn't address the four other processes and where they fall. It's difficult to evaluate the claims made, especially since that it's using MajorsPTI (created by the author) and the results were arrived at via "complex regression and scoring methods."
Still, dubiousness aside, it would be nice to get some empirical evidence for type dynamics ordering, etc. There really hasn't been much empirical evidence that type dynamics exist, much less that any particular ordering of the 8 functions is correct. The full results will be presented at the APT Conference in August.
Also interesting to note they used the official MBTI function ordering (where the other 3 functions have the opposite orientation of the primary).