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mlevison

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Certified Scrum Trainer | I help organizations and teams become more effective. I use #Scrum, #Kanban #Agile #BehaviouralPsychology. | I’ve helped over 8000 people build better teams

I dabble with #PKM aka Personal Knowledgement Management so the ideas that fall out of my head get written down somewhere #Obsidian. #fedi22

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ellane, to obsidianmd
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Finally seriously looking at Sync.

Where should I store my vault on my ? I feel so lost! For years × ∞ I've put everything in Dropbox or iCloud, but that, I hear, is a recipe for sync troubles.

  • looks at computer as if for the first time, confused expression on previously confident face *

Why is my Documents folder greyed out? Where am I? Who am I ?? Help me, obi-@obsidianmd, you're my only hope!

mlevison,
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@ellane @obsidianmd anywhere but Dropbox or other sync platforms

mlevison,
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@ellane I only bothered to move one vault. The others were all just sample vaults.

I renamed the iCloud vault with a delete me ending. I shutdown my obsidian on all devices. I copied the vault on MacOS. I restarted obsidian MacOS and enabled sync. …

All steps were reversible. Also I had backups in GIt, Time Machine and Backblaze.

mlevison,
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@ellane wow. I have photos, drafts, NetNewsWire, family backups so iPhones and iPads

mlevison,
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@ellane oh. I think that rules IAWriter out since you can’t have your vault in both iCloud and Obsidian sync.

mlevison,
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@kill_dash_nine you can’t safely embed one sync service inside another. You will eventually get conflicting changes.

mlevison,
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@EpiphanicSynchronicity @ellane @obsidianmd I hadn’t even noticed that. Oh that’s nice

mlevison, to random
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is popular and that is about the only thing it has going for it. In reality it is no better than rolling die and assigning people a personality profile based on the die roll.

  • Carl Jung's ideas are at the base of the test. Unfortunately Jung's work has never been empirically tested. Hint when your base level construct is unsound you might have a train wreck on your hands.

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mlevison,
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  • Not Stable/Repeatable - with a reliable test I should be able to give the test once and a few weeks later give you the same test and get the same result. Myers Briggs not so much.
  • Predictive Value - a useful test should predict outcomes in the real world. MBTI has no predictive value.
  • Forced Questions - the test asks questions that force you have a binary answer, yet human personality is better measured on a continuum.

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mlevison,
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  • Poorly selected boundaries - 16 Personality types doesn't come close to covering all of humanity, so these 16 are arbitrarily selected buckets.
  • Median split to select the boundaries. People close the median might further away from the people they're classified with than the people just the other side of the median.
    …

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mlevison,
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…Example I might score 55% Thinker and someone else 40%. I will be bucketed as Thinking and the other person as a Feeling. Yet we're closer together, than we're to the extremes of our buckets.

  • MBTI ignores Neuroticism - a trait that is an important predictor of career, health and romantic outcomes.

Why do people think the results of the MBTI tells themselves something meaningful about themselves or their team?

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mlevison,
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The descriptions are generally vague and all of them are flattering. This called the Barnum or Forer effect. A fortune teller, Astrologer etc makes a vague statement that could apply to many/most people. The listener is pleasantly surprised to hear things that apply to them. Result they start to see themselves reflected in the test.

Finally when these tests are used inside organizations to hire etc, they can weed out neurodivergent people.

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mlevison,
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@donaldegray I meant to cite earlier see: https://areomagazine.com/2021/03/09/should-you-trust-the-myers-briggs-personality-test/

“Is it useful?” If my points are valid how can it be useful.

Pretend I evaluate as an ENTJ (I only know of the letters). If my ‘E’ is closer to someone else’s ‘I’ than all the other ‘E’s in my group/team then how was classification helpful?

Further lack of repeatability of the test causes concern.

There are two well validated tests: Big Five and HEXACO.

Why not replace all uses of MBTI with something validated?

mlevison,
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@donaldegray Finally shouldn’t it be the people who use MBTI who justify it’s use? Rather my providing evidence.

mlevison,
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@donaldegray @marick

Let’s examine useful a bit more.

We will create the Gray-Levison model. We will cook 50 questions to classify people in the SCARF model. We can do it over craft beer in my kitchen.

Then we will hand it out to the world without any validation work by an outside source.

Would the Gray-Levison model be useful? If it isn’t how are you able say Myers Briggs which was constructed the same way is useful?

mlevison,
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@donaldegray @marick and at least the a Gray Levison model will derived from a scientifically derived construct SCARF. Myers Briggs derived from Jung. The world of psychology has moved on from him

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