Hi Auburn,

Just reacting to a couple things you said. Busy week at work, glad it’s the weekend at last. If haven’t been able to find a quote function so I’ll have to rely on the old-fashioned inverted commas, lol.

“In summary, my essential thought on the matter is that, if type is real, there is no reason why it wouldn't be in medical literat…Read more

@lapislazuli - That's a fair observation. Part of my motivation for writing the 8 function profiles in two sections (regular then an "under stress") is precisely for this reason. The totality of personhood and typehood includes what the type looks like under stress, so I wouldn't omit that, nor should we omit what they look like in healthy states.…Read more

Your idea for an anthology of volunteer autobiographies does sound like a solution to the author bias problem, but it occurs to me that you could end up with another bias, namely success story bias.  By "success", I mean both subjective and objective: A bias would toward both people who are satisfied with their lives and those who are at or near…Read more

In summary, my essential thought on the matter is  that, if type is real, there is no reason why it wouldn't be in medical literature, with a growing body of studies on each type, and facts-based descriptions that can be just as decentralized in authorship as any other important fact we know of ourselves and our constitution.

We don't have this…Read more

I should have guessed you had anticipated the issue long ago!

Cool, I've had a read of the article and the two main proposed solutions. I'll come back with more possible observations once I've digested the content properly.

It is indeed quite a problem we have to address!

I call this the "Author Bias Problem" - I've written a wiki page about it here, with some proposed solutions, which may be a good starting-off point for us:
https://cognitivetypology.com/index.php?title=Author_Bias_Problem

Curious to know your thoughts on the article, and I will read up on Bracketi…Read more

Hi Auburn,

I am fascinated by this idea of a "meta-description of all of humanity". I didn't realise the project behind CT was that ambitious.

There are passages in Psychological Types where Jung sounds almost 'cognitively deterministic', in the sense that he seems to say our points of view are bound to be determined by our cognitive fu…Read more