Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Claim: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator accurately categorizes human personalities into 16 distinct psychological types based on four cognitive dichotomies.
Bullshit Meter
Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.
Physics vs. mind loop
Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?
Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.
Bio & cult hazard
6.1%Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.
Topological fingerprint
The structural profile of the claim on five axes.
- Empirical rigor
- 35.4%
- Magic & dogma
- 16.7%
- Rhetorical fog
- 33.7%
- Conspiracy
- 1.5%
- Psychosocial
- 35.7%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
9.4%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
39.0%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect31.8%
- Motte-and-bailey12.5%
- Stolen jargon3.6%
Guru roulette
59.6%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 40.4%
- Special gift needed11.2%
- Contradicting experts46.9%
- "Skeptics block it"1.5%
Fossil & dogma clock
92.1%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science7.5%
- 🩹Degenerative patching56.6%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon4.6%
- 🦴Fossil in amber31.3%
Tin-foil hat reactor
1.6%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed