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<blockquote data-quote="slobo777" data-source="post: 6018516" data-attributes="member: 6694877">They do, but there is some underlying science. Probably most importantly, they don't try to link your personality to anything else but&nbsp; . . . your personality. A lot of it is just bleedingly obvious self-consistency: &nbsp;MB question: &quot;Do you prefer to plan, or are you spontaneous?&quot; &nbsp;Answer: &quot;I prefer to plan.&quot;&nbsp;MB prediction: &quot;When the project starts, you will want to focus on th plan for it.&quot;Where I disagree with Myer's Briggs is in the handedness model (you must be either one or another, there's no scale). But you can see that as a simplifying level of granularity (much like D&amp;D's class system). The MB model of personality is a moderately good predictor of normal behaviour. It's most important use in business though is to make everyone stop and think about why other people are different, and perhaps give up some time to allow for it now and then rather than being self-obsessed.A scientifically more robust personality model emerging is the &quot;Big 5&quot;, which is basically just a measure of self-consistency in descriptions of people and behaviour.Edit: I used MB shorthand for my NPCs before, and I have to say it works quite well for talky/non-violent encounters to add a bit of variety. Doesn't seem to work too well for monsters - is the ogre a detailed thinker or an ideas-based giant - er, no he just wants to bash your head in! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="slobo777, post: 6018516, member: 6694877"] They do, but there is some underlying science. Probably most importantly, they don't try to link your personality to anything else but . . . your personality. A lot of it is just bleedingly obvious self-consistency: MB question: "Do you prefer to plan, or are you spontaneous?" Answer: "I prefer to plan." MB prediction: "When the project starts, you will want to focus on th plan for it." Where I disagree with Myer's Briggs is in the handedness model (you must be either one or another, there's no scale). But you can see that as a simplifying level of granularity (much like D&D's class system). The MB model of personality is a moderately good predictor of normal behaviour. It's most important use in business though is to make everyone stop and think about why other people are different, and perhaps give up some time to allow for it now and then rather than being self-obsessed. A scientifically more robust personality model emerging is the "Big 5", which is basically just a measure of self-consistency in descriptions of people and behaviour. Edit: I used MB shorthand for my NPCs before, and I have to say it works quite well for talky/non-violent encounters to add a bit of variety. Doesn't seem to work too well for monsters - is the ogre a detailed thinker or an ideas-based giant - er, no he just wants to bash your head in! :-) [/QUOTE]

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