The Five Core Dimensions of Personality
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- We've all taken a personality test. They're fun! But how reliable are they? Of course the silly ones online don't mean anything. But what about the Myers-Briggs? Is that any good? What about the Big 5? As it turns out, the latter is more reliable, so let's talk about the five core dimensions of personality.
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The "what type of sandwich are you" test is clearly the only correct way to categorize personalities in humans.
BLT or Fried Egg, depending. Notice both have bacon.
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I disagree. The which Harry Potter character are you is far more accurate.😂
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i remember taking the Meyers Briggs test in psych 101 and then the teacher was like ‘oh btw this is total bs’ and then gave us the big five one LOL
Kinda sad how they dont mention the connection of MBTI and Jung's cognitive function stacks. To me MBTI is flexible and functions can be more prominent than others, and while 16p is nowhere near as good as typing someone as the site has been known to mistype people, finding the ACTUAL cognitive stack without the 16p site somehow made me realize how people work. Even though i know just well MBTI dont have scientific proof and i have no way of proving it lol
@@onetwo9500 MBTI is more of a labeling system than anything else. You can nearly always type someone into it, but it doesn't hold any significant explanatory power. It's like a color chart. You can tell that yes this is a light cyan-ish blue but it doesn't tell you anything else.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness true that. Idk to me it could tell me what someone is going through like say they were an INTJ and theyre doing irrationally selfish annyoing shits, id knew hes using it in an Ni-Fi way. Adding to the analogy, it would be like picking a swatch of color in a color wheel and using that to paint a person. Idk jung's functions theory opened a world for me even though i know its just fiction. But hey, people still group hogwarts houses so 🙅
@@onetwo9500 Well it's not fiction. Perhaps a better example is that it's like grouping houses by their color, shape, garage(s), window(s), or other external characteristics. The Big Five is more like describing houses in terms of what their walls, roof, paint, floors, carpet, wallpaper, etc. is made from, or what manufacturing processes produced the items or assembled them. The first one is easy to identify with, but the second one is much better to use as a reference in order to actually learn something you didn't already know. For example, knowing that the house has one or two garages doesn't tell you how easily the garages will accumulate mold, but knowing the local climate as well as the walls/floor in the garage(s) will help you to understand that.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness righttt
Glad you took a stab at Myers-Briggs. People seem to put way too much stock in it on social media. I mean, I suppose it's slightly more valuable than astrology but when you have the big 5 to consider, it's kind of meh.
I think the gap in reliability between the Myers-Briggs and astrology is much bigger than the gap between Myers-Briggs and the Big 5. That is to say, I don't think it's just _slightly_ more valuable than astrology.
@@WanderTheNomad Not sure how relevant that is when the gap between all three of those and anything resembling the scientific method is even wider.
Love to see you branching out. Always been interested in this topic as well! Thanks for all you do!
As an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist, I enjoyed seeing this one. I've read a fair amount of academic literature pertaining to the Big 5 and have a good deal of experience leveraging it for various purposes in organizations. I do not disagree with anything Dave presented here - it is a good high-level overview. I definitely appreciated the criticism of the Myers Briggs - this "test" is flawed for all the reasons Dave mentioned, plus some. I do want to point out a couple additional points about the Big 5 that may be beneficial for others to know:
1) The Big 5 is a model of "normal" personality. It does not deal with personality disorders. Big 5 personality measures are not clinical diagnostic tools.
2) Personality tests are predictive of behavior, but they are not measures of one's abilities. For example, someone fairly high on introversion can still manage to deliver a great public speech, but it will take a lot out of them and make them feel exhausted doing so. They likely would not seek out such opportunities and would burnout quickly if they had to do it all the time, whereas the extrovert would feel energized from doing it. Doesn't mean that the former couldn't do it as well as the latter if they set their mind to it. A Big 5 personality test does say a lot about you and will predict your behavior in broad strokes, but you need not feel that it is an ultimate constraint upon how you must be or what you are capable of.
I find it to have done more harm than good.
I'm a strong introvert. but public speaking is forever one of my biggest passions (along with debate, drama, etc).Sometimes I feel like every personality trait I have is contradicted by some factor so significant that it may as well cancel it out. "Traits", even those as self-evident and obvious as the Big 5, are--in the end--pretty arbitrary
@Fk Yudamn that was fast. I had to cut my message short. In all honesty I can’t say any of my passions/hobbies drain me. They drive me, nourish me, and give me more energy than I could ever handle.
One thing I don’t understand: Why the Big 5 is favored over Meyers-Briggs at all.
Is MBTI really any more pseudoscientific than Big 5 though? Isn’t your spot on a gradient between Extravert and Not Extravert just an arbitrary, false dichotomy? How is the Ext/Not dichotomy any more reality-based or consequential than Extravert-Introvert?
@Fk Yu That's a good question. I haven't read any primary research on that yet so I don't have an informed position.
@@Tmkmml I'd be interested to see where you fall on measures of openness to experience and challenge seeking. Still, this is a good example of my point that you need not feel constrained by your personality. The traits aren't arbitrary and across-persons (in aggregate) they can be predictive of behavior, but a person can definitely behave outside of them. That can be based on conscious personal choice, situational factors, etc.
Professor Dave seems to be able to explain almost everything.
Well, obviously! Because he knows a lot about the science stuff!
@Fk Yu that still counts as him explaining stuff, and doesn't make it any less impressive.
Debunking auditory vs visual vs tactile learners is an interesting one
Veritasium has a great video exploring that phenomenon / myth.
Yes
until you meet someone who is highly tactile, visual, or auditory in their learning style, i guess
@@beepboop204 Now, I would highly recommend you to watch that video.
@@TheKingBeyondEverything too much work¯\_(ツ)_/¯
professor Dave is exploring every single field in the world! it seems as if it was yesterday when I started watching his organic chemistry content. The good old days.
Ask your self what stopped you from being like him. Genetics, geography, money. Everyone has his potential it's just a choice on if we pursue it. It's a sad question to ask. My favorite version of "Hell" is being the person you were and meeting the person you could have become.
@@tylermcnally8232 great call man! Each of us can change the world and preach science! There is nothing holding us back. You live once and once is all you get!
🎶 He knows a lot about all kinds of stuff Professor Dave Explains 🎺
I really enjoy watching him destroy the flat earth theory 🌎
@@KLSYFY yeah he is great! Earlier today, I was with Bill Nye the science guy. Have you ever heard of him? He is also a science educator. He was talking about climate change.
As a long time viewer, I find it interesting how Proff Dave’s personality is much more “gentle” in his standard educational videos than his debunk videos, which contain a distinct hint of “what have you been smoking???!!!”
Flat earthers' stupidity, it's *high* 📈🚬
Oh that's just because you are mistaking "personality" with "presentation".
Naturally. The target of an educational video is someone who wants to know things. The target of a debunk is a contemptible charlatan poisoning the well of knowledge for personal profit. I know I talk very differently to those two groups.
Well, in one case he is talking to peolpe genuinely eager to learn or at least having enough curiosity to watch his videos and in the other he has not only to accept, but also to tackle the dumps of human's minds AKA the peaks of their emotionality in judgements, blind (anti-)conservatism in views and the greed(For money and for attention ans stuff) of their leaders.
P. S. And, I guess, it's clear I'm Russian because no other sort of a person would make an entire comment of such size of just 2 sentances, one of which is P. S.
“Be kind to dumb animals”? Thanks, Dave!
I think it's common for people to view extraversion and emotional stability as 'better' than the inverse. However know that the big five test only measure your personality traits to place you in relation to the normal distribution. Therefor I wonder how personality traits that are commonly viewed as 'bad' like high scores in neuriticism and impulsivity are actually beneficial to some lifestyles or profession?
I doubt it's any beneficial at all in any profession. Being easy to distress makes one's performance worse.
Well what I’ve heard is that: (I’m no expert at all tho, don’t take my word for gospel and do correct me lol if I’m wrong!)
For neuroticism, the more highly neurotic people are the ones who will “warn” you of the real danger. (Think your mom anxious about emergency exits for your new building right away… ok that’s my mom lol). Whereas the lower neuroticism people might be too chill in the face of REAL danger… think not being bothered about a snake trying to bite you because “it’s all gonna be fine, man” or something llol.
For extroversion, it’s “problematic” if you’re really trying to focus and work on your thing. Think someone not doing their studying or a project they might even care about, because they want to go see people and do higher-energy things. And low extroversion can be “problematic” if it means you …? I actually don’t know! Idk too well the extroversion aspect. Would you (or anyone) tell me what people say is bad about lower extroversion? 🤔
Maybe low extroversion would be problematic if the person feels dissatisfied with their relationships because they simply don’t yet put themselves in enough social situations? That sounds valid
@@Jasmine-ll8qu I don't think high neuroticism is necessary to be aware of real danger. For that one just needs high cautiousness (a conscientiousness facet).
I took Myers-Briggs a few times. If I recall correctly, 3 of the 4 letters changed at least some of the times.
What personality are you, Dave? (both in the gradient model you presented and the flawed Myers-Briggs)
He may be the type which debunks and teaches
Probably very high on conscienciousness and openness and very low on agreeableness
In mbti it would be an ENTJ, like carl sagan and steve jobs
@@leongremista95 tbh, I got ENFJ-A
To be honest, Big 5 has high correlation with MBTI. I agree that Dave is ENTJ in MBTI.
Hey, Dave! Thanks for all the content which I love. Even things I know nothing about or even interested in. But, when I see you've uploaded about it, I always take the time to watch because I know that I will actually have learned something in doing so. Or, even become interested in hearing more.. So, great stuff. But, I have a serious question; what is that outro music? I love it. Lol.. Did you make it?
haha yes with my buddy when I first created the channel
@@ProfessorDaveExplains lol I had a feeling. I know you're also a musician. Great work with everything.👍
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Gotta know: is the outro a recorder? Piccolo? Flute?
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Were you playing the ukulele ?
No that was my buddy on ukelele, I did the percussion and the little flute thing on a MIDI controller.
So your saying that the survey I did that said I was a Ron Weasley Hoagie Sandwich was wrong? 😢😭
Not wrong, just fun 😊
Yeah, I’ve taken modified Myers-Briggs tests with a few employers. One was a bit more nuanced than the "standard binary" because it quantified where you were, allegedly, on the scale, eg I repeatedly tested near 55%/45% on introversion/extraversion, my husband tested nearer 75%/25%. (It was a computer program and we got a copy, took it several times each and gave it to friends and family out of curiosity.) The results weren’t completely off-base, but they still missed some subtleties…hubby *loves* socializing while too much of it exhausts me. Not what you’d expect from the test results. 🤨
That is another aspect:
For neutotypical at least, everyone craves attention and recognition. And everyone needs downtime and "metime".
So, what does this say about extroverts vs introverts?
One idea would be that introverts need a higher ratio of downtime to attention compared to extroverts. However, is this because of different size "fuel tanks"? Or a higher burn rate? Or a higher recharge rate?
But this is based of the bogus B-M version of extrovert.
On the other hand, it seems the Big 5 uses the same definition.
So a more introvert person might actually enjoy being the center of attention, but get exhausted. Or they might simply not like it. The difference probably comes from where they are on other traits.
@@57thorns Good points, individual personality traits are composed of a complex interplay of genes and environmental factors. I’ve read that another difference between extroverts and introverts is that extroverts are supposed to be more influenced by external social interactions with other people while introverts are more influenced by their own internal dialogues. With that metric my husband is definitely a bit more of an introvert than I am. (And the genetic component rings true, too. One of my parents, myself, my son and his oldest are all "cave creature" introverts. My other parent, both siblings and my son’s second child are all pretty extroverted by all definitions. Me, son and introverted grandchild have no problem with being the center of attention when we are in a group, we’re just not 100% happy with excess grouping. 😏)
This doesn’t really seem like a good way to think about personality. It may appease some desired to classify the world. But it does so by over simplifying what personality so much those classifications don’t hold real predictive power.
Yours is the first channel I've seen with a different audio track available in the video settings
It’s a new feature in beta!
Sorry man, but as someone who works in this field, all personality tests are pseudoscience. Without exception. The "better" ones still suffer from terrible flaws in their basic assumptions and are often based on science that's decades out of date. Of course, those involved in psychometrics etc. desperately try to claim otherwise, but personalities are almost impossible to reduce to universal categories kicb the same way emotions are.
And no, there's no such thing as universal emotions either, before you even think of doing a video on that.
Many or most beg to differ. You're basically making the case that personalities don't exist, which is pretty absurd.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains I'd be more interested in real science regarding the hormones released with certain emotions and the physiology of neural pathways (use it or lose it).
Is there some real statistics proving the loosely associated attributes within each of the Big 5 are the only correct ones? Like pairwise regression, or something similar?
Then you would be interested in biopsychology, a totally separate and fascinating field of study. I'm not intimately familiar with the studies substantiating anything in this tutorial, I didn't write it, a psychologist did.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains fair enough. Love your stuff man! Thanks for what you do
That wasn't helpful at all. I'm extremely well balanced, right down the middle on everything. I lean neither towards or away from anything.
Your statement makes you sound narcissistic lol
I love the video but I have a question:
With almost all five of the categories, I knew on what side of the spectrum I was, but than there are one ore two things that completely contradict what I feel like on the same side of the spectrum.
Does this mean that I'm in the middle of the spectrum?
I think that's why it's a spectrum and not a binary scale like the M-B, to allow for you to fall somewhere on the sliding scale. On conscientiousness for example, I'm a serial procrastinator and can exhibit poor impulse control, but I have a love for efficiency and structure.
Very good video. However, another variable that should be considered is how your personality will change depending on who your associating with at that time.
These concepts don't entirely work for neurodivergences, but is a good groundwork and probably a good way to learn about neurotypicals
This is so bullshit. I’m a non-neurotypical by diagnosis. But nobody is neurotypical- we all have some degree of personality traits that can be related to a labeled condition.
People who think that being “neuro divergent” makes them significantly different than a “neurotypical” person. (Which hardly exists) are idiotic.
Hell, the big 5 have been shown to not be independent of themselves. They’re hardly scientific or even that useful to study anyone.
@@jacob9673 true a "perfect" neurotypical barely exists but someone who just has anxiety or depression still leans towards the more neurotypical end of things (this doesn't mean that anyone should be forced to conform or operate without their needs met, and really all it takes is one obvious/simple difference to have big effects on what someone needs). In my opinion however, it's when people have a cluster of these small divergences of or a syndrome of these differences that makes them moreso divergent. It isn't a hard line though, and i doubt it's even a single line (basically there is no default). But i get it, we're not alien or another species or something.
Also yeah that's a fair point. I figured you could have a slider for lower to higher amounts of both ends of the same aspect on the five, making it the big 10, and probably further subdivisions among them breaking them up into individual traits that are very specific, and then at some point you have to get more complicated psych and even neurology involved. Though this could only go so far since only so much is known and understood about the brain and the minds they build.
@@orbismworldbuilding8428 It’s not really that complicated. Psychology isn’t really that’s scientific- neuro is, but behavioral psychology is not. It has terrible replication and isn’t very predictive.
“Big 10” would be even more bullshit because it wouldn’t even be from factor analysis. So it would be a completely arbitrary number.
At that point it’s basically horoscopes.
@@jacob9673 the main problem in measuring such a wide range of very very broken down (we'll say "atomic") traits is that there would be a long list of these traits with a lot of times very subtle differences between many of them, all likely to be subject to change. and there wouldn't be any clear personalities, just a personality spectrum.
Honestly I'd say these more non-atomic-with-few-measures type of systems like big 5 or mbti are more like horoscopes but are more applicable in specific situations than whatever exhaustingly long and needlessly detailed thing i come up with.
This comes down to the nature of what personality scores are for to begin with though: arbitrary, intuitive stuff that's partly made up
@@jacob9673 also yeah behavioral psych has a lot of issues generally
What is your mbti type and what are your big five traits?
Hi Dave. Lady Moon here. I commented on this video the other day to say I did not think it was accurate.
I had a migraine at the time, and now that I'm better I've watched it again and I must apologize (I'm sure you don't really give a damn about one person's opinion but there it is)
It is clear I was well-wide of the mark and the video does not say what I thought it was saying. I removed the comment as soon as I realized I'd made a dunce of myself and it is only fitting to now replace it with one which says:
'Well done. Insightful video, Professor'.
Dave is a confirmed personality guy 😁
Have there been studies about the emotional/physical state of the mother during pregnancy & the temperament of the child at birth / during infancy? For example, a mother who drank vs a mother was under extreme stress due to be off anxiety medication or being pregnant during COVID vs a mother in a stable loving relationship with a partner with a strong social support network include healthy stable bonds with family of origin vs a mother who was homeless vs a teenage mother vs etc?
I guess the main thing I'm wondering here is does things like the stress level during pregnancy influence temperament? Because a fetus is exposed to everything in the blood of the mother, it has an environment which could case changes. Things like stress release stress hormones, and we know things like drinking or doing drugs while pregnant produces changes, so I don't see why chemical compounds produced by the mother's own body wouldn't be relevant.
For example, I have identical twin brothers. Same DNA, born the same day from the same person. But one is taller than the other, and the shorter one has severe autism. He looked nothing like a normal baby from the moment he was born. He was under nurished (starved) and almost died in utero. Even his heart didn't form correctly (one of the valves was messed up & he needed surgery when he was very small), while his identical twin has a totally normal heart, is taller, always looked like a healthy happy normal baby, and isn't autistic.
Great video, as always. I took Myers-Briggs several times a few decades ago (ENTJ here), but more recently have started using DiSC instead, which seems to be built on the same concepts as OCEAN, but more tailored to assessing "at office" personality. DiSC is (D)ominance, (I)nfluence, (S)teadiness, and (C)onscientiousness. The one thing I did like about Myers-Briggs is that it introduced the idea of one's "back-up" personality. That is, if you typically exhibit say, an ENTJ style, what happens when you are put under duress or stress? Not sure if OCEAN addresses this concept or not, but it seems clear that people have a fall-back position when really taxed or feeling stressed or threatened.
Appreciate the hard work by you and your team, Professor Dave.
I'm new at this, but do you know if OCEAN and MBTI systems are correlated? Like if ENTJ's are more likely to be consistently the same types in Big 5?
I'm trying to do data analysis and I'm at the stage where idk what im doing haha
You're great on explaining and debunking as usual, Professor! However, you also need to give the Functions stack theory a hit, because a lot of mbti people refer to it upon getting criticized.
Same as the Learning styles, we all use all of these so-called 8 functions in life but only the *top* ones determine our type. See the problem here? It lies in the word in bold. How do we gonna rate which one is higher than the other to stack them up? Is there any metric for this? The answer is no, and in most cases it all comes down to personal relatability which is subjective by its nature and obviously untestable (hence there's no point in making tests based on this). Same as many other fake sciences, this theory struggle with quantities (in this case, the degree by which an individual relates to each function). The functions themselves are utterly idealistic and most psychological researches denied their existence. Same as the 16 types, the stacks results also change the next time one takes the test. (Let's ignore the fact that there are 8! stacks but only 16 types so huge amount of ad-hoc is needed to bridge between them)
What about its applicability? The type or stack misses a lot of things. One's skills, motivations, and even your choice of apparel matter more in everyday life. People don't ask what function they uses the most to know about others. They just *observe*. But apart from wasting our time, here's the most detri-mental aspect. Suppose one individual tested and found out his stack or type, that relates to the characters and people he idolized. That will likely establish the idea or belief of his own perfect type, so he will refuse to change what he is. If his behaviors are in fact, considered as negative by people around him, then he has become delusional.
learned about this in class 2 weeks ago lol
Loving this. My 1st encounter with OCEAN was Dr. Grande
Knowing you're low in agreeableness and have tried to change is a different kind of pain
To be fair, the big 5 has been disproven. There are literally studies shown they’re not independent on eachother, which is a core assumption the statistical method used to develop them.
Psychology is barely a science- it’s still useful, but we might as well call alchemy a science if we allow psychology, with its poor reproducibility to be one.
It's a social science. Alchemy is an archaic pseudoscience. That's a terrible comparison.
The poor reproducibility in some fields of psychology has causes that hardly have anything to do with the field’s scientific validity. Most of the time when a psychology study is unable to be reproduced it’s because of certain biases by the initial researchers/publishers (which can actually be explained by psychology itself…). For one, there are a huge amount of psychological studies which yield insignificant results. The vast majority, in fact. Unfortunately, most publishers, especially at universities, mostly only care about publishing work that shows some significance, regardless of if these studies are actually meaningful. The desire to “find something great” exceeds the desire to create solid science. It sucks, but it’s true. When a psychologist finds a “significant result” either by chance or by statistical bias, it is far more likely to be published. Many researchers have to reach certain research quotas in order to obtain tenure or remain respected by peers. It’s pretty easy to unconsciously formulate studies that appear to yield significant results, as well as pretend that significant results weren’t obtained by chance. The field of psychology is not perfect, but that does mean reproducibility for many studies is inherently impossible. There are systematic causes for this phenomenon, and the scientific method can be (and often is) used effectively in the social sciences.
Yes, no one is saying psychology is as rigorous as Newton's laws of motion. The human brain is insanely complex and chaotic. But to suggest that it is pseudoscience is just totally invalid.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains But why do we make the distinction between “soft” fields like behavioral psychology, with low reproducibility, rampant p-hacking, and studies that are often based on debunked theories and those that are less like that. It’s totally semantic, but factor analysis did not work in the case of the big 5, and this is one of the “better” attempts to describe personality.
Comparing it to alchemy is facetious, sure- but it’s not totally unwarranted.
I am wary of treating behavioral psychology like a true science, since that enables flat earthers and the like to attack *all* of science for the abysmal reproducibility of the social sciences. Hell, plenty of papers are being published citing theories like priming- there’s a reason nature concluded 50% of psychology papers could not be reproduced.
That’s not to say that they’re at all useless- quite the opposite, but I don’t think putting soft fields like this on the same playing field as the physical sciences is healthy. Especially in this age of disinformation. Of course, academia suffers from a lot of the same issues in the physical sciences- but nowhere to the same degree.
I’m a huge fan of yours though, it would be cool if you could make a video on scientific philosophy and the semantics of what “is” and “isn’t” scientific, as well as flaws in our current system. (Publish or perish, for profit journals, low reproducibility in behavioral fields.) It might be good to open people’s eyes to all of that.
Would you call a couple who’s car shopping “scientists?” They formulate hypothesis, test them, and come to conclusions. Sure- but on the spectrum of “science” that’s pretty low.
I am pretty sure that behavioral psychologists are well aware of the limitations of their field, due to the inherently chaotic nature of human behavior. It's not a really a secret. You could complain about the weather reports not being accurate because the atmosphere is an equally chaotic system. It doesn't mean meteorology isn't science. Car shopping is not a science. That's a mischaracterization of the scientific process. They are not observing natural phenomena and they are not developing rigorous models that correlate disparate data and make predictions.
Personality traits is a fluid spectrum that adjusts/changes over time
So sir Dave what is your personality according to the big five
Thank you, I keep having to tell all my friends to stop believing Meyer Briggs is a real thing.
Believing in mbti can make one not change who they really are and hence delusional.
"42-57% is decided by genes". So its basically a coin flip, meaning no relationship at all, just randomness.
Am I missing something, because these are binary variables (introvert or extrovert), that are the same about half the time.
If anybody can show a personality test that passes a Gage R&R please share link. I'd be fascinated how they get self-assessments of babies, or how to judge their preference for schedules. It's pretty well known in child development that infants aren't really aware of others till at least 3-4 years old when they can co-play.
Percentage of variation is not like likelihood. Look up R-squared to get some idea of the concept. But 0.49 variation corresponds to a correlation of 0.70, which is very strong.
Having 42-57% personality governed by genetics is a pretty strong correlation.
Oh, I forgot. The current view is that they are far from binary. You can't neatly divide people into two groups of extreme introverts and extreme outroverts. Most people fall somewhere in the middle. But the stats question is important. Look up Josh Starmer's Staquest, if you want to know more.
Best wishes
Have you heard of HEXACO, Dave? It's basically OCEAN but with the dark triad included as H (honesty) as well.
This is so complex, all that you described I share at least 1 trait
We need to see a video where you do a Collab with Dr. Todd grande!
The Jordan Peterson test is by far the best
@Fk Yu I do, in some aspects, and not all. But I am a live let live libertarian. I am not his daughter lol
@Fk Yu no I don't vote anymore, but used to... Went from blue to red to disenfranchised
@Fk Yu if you go by chronological order of what I said you'd realize how I got there. Are you seriously trying to blame me for outgrowing going conservative? You need to watch more professor Dave and develop your logic buddy
hey dave, just wondering, what's with the switch away from the green screen videos? is it just easier to have explanations on screen and do voice over separately? just curious as i haven't seen those in a while
Unfortunately at the start of the pandemic UA-cam Studios all around the world shut down. That's where I had been shooting on green screen, I don't actually own cameras or lights or any of the expensive gear I was able to use for free over there. In lockdown I started doing audio only and it seemed to work just fine so I'm sticking with it for the time being. Perhaps one day you'll see my face again! Outside of the debunks that is.
An interesting take on the MBTI types and Big 5! Thanks for sharing to inspire my MBTI channel. Randomly discovered your channel through the UA-cam algorithm! 🤟🤟🤟
My favorite part of every video is your intro. The informative portions of your videos are great too ;-)
Are there publicly available tests to determine where one falls on the various spectrums of the big five personality traits? Or are online personality tests in general just bunk? If the former is true, what’s a reliable source for such a test?
Rorschach ink blot test sets an individual on several bell curves such as passive-aggressive...... optimistic-pessamistic....... introvert- extrovert...... cynical-idealistic...... but are normally given only to those who exhibit aberrant behavior....... an understanding counselor could arrange such a test for you, I asked for the test back in the 80s...... I fell in the center of every curve, probably common for non-abberrant people. There are several versions of the Rorschach test, btw.
Learning my MBTI was a big step for me. It helped open me to learning more about my psyche. Just like you said. I’m happily an ENFJ.
Your overview of mbti seems to be based off of popular websites and not actually the system itself, for instance you said that the traits are "binary" however this is only true of popular websites and not the actual system, the actual system uses "cognitive functions" which can further be determined and do not "change when you take the test a secod time" i agree that the popular websites are completely inaccurate however this is not due to mbti's actual system but the websites understanding of how it works. I think you should revisit the mbti, after thoroughly looking through cognitive functions, looping, shadow, and other things within the system that is far more informative than the shallow websites you seem to be referencing
Brain disorders I think is a factor. By disorders I mean autism spectrum or narcissistic spectrum. I believe that narcissism is a problem with the front brain and autism the back brain, different degrees of damage to no damage.
Autism causes similar personalities like narcissism does also. Mild autism lives rules and routines are introverted and don't like to socialise. Narcissism is the opposite.
You said im incorrect in every way but then went to point out parts of brain disorder. So I'm correct about brain disorders.
Narcissism has opposite traits to autism. I know I have mild autism also, I also have studied narcissism and their traits alot. I clearly see an imbalance in the frontal cortex with them by viewing what part of the personality is affected by that area.
Narcissist like to dress to impress, especially in the latest fashions to impress socially. Mild autistic wears what they like and don't tend to follow the crowd with fashion.
Narcissists love to be social and are great at manipulation and lying whist on their social playground. Mild autistic is poor at socialising can't manipulate or lie well. This is the reason for the autistic not lying and saying the truth out loud, they actually have an opposite trait. A narcissist might hurt people with words on purpose and even say things that are true or not true. The autistic movtive is the opposite even though people get offended still.
Narcissists are extrovert and egotistical but mild autistic are introverted and humble because of shyness.
The narcissists are fast brained always on the go and living in what an autistic would call chaos, the autistic is organised and practicable with routines.
The narcissist hate rules and disobey them regularly, the autistic loves to live by rules and thinks everyone should be conscientious about following them.
As you can see opposite. I'm sure there is plenty more I forgot but I hope that explained opposite.
No I didn't. You're lying or you didn't read my comment properly. I didn't edit a single thing.
I proved you wrong now your being a cry baby.
I took that Myers Briggs thing for a job and I had a job specialist there to help me it was funny 😁 I couldn't understand why they would ask two opposing questions my job specialist got mad at the test I just kinda rolled with it but my job specialist was mad 😠 and thought the test was crazy 🤪 I couldn't understand why every question would ask opposite then ask how you felt about it makes more sense now
More people need to see this video
Gonna start sharing it with friends
When you said twins can have same personality I immediately thought about the separated Buffer brothers who were separated , didn’t know of one another and ended up having the same job and finding out that way(the famous ring announcers for boxing/ufc respectively) ! Not twins but brothers and a crazy story
Thanks for this, helped me understand a few problems I have. It's hard to find stuff on this topic which isn't mindless make yourself feel better nonsense.
Personality is the best predictor next to i.q...this is accurate ppl..even if it doesn't fit you're narrative..
i didnt expect to see mbti in this series. -im an INTJ btw
So you mean to tell me that I'm not Luna Lovegood or a black forest ham with provolone cheese? 🤯
I’ve always thought personality traits like this are super accurate except like horoscopes, you can apply any one of these to you depending on what you’re thinking about when answering the questions.
I have different levels of these traits and different categories of my life. I might be organized with things I care about, and disorganized with community things that I lose motivation keeping up with when others don’t.
I may be cynical in one situation and optimistic in another one. I think there is another level of analysis that can apply these traits specific areas of your life for a better picture
Yeah, theres so many factors that can go into things that at the end of the day its a somewhat shallow test. I can be organised when it comes to something i care about or am working on. When it comes to school work it really feels forced and i suddenly have 0 motivation for making it work.
I've always thought personality traits like this are super accurate if you deliberately want to show social unintelligence and fail in social situations; or are trying to compartmentalize people simply because you don't want to bother.
I can whatever but I choose to do things the way I choose to because it's my choice and that is based on circumstances and NOT "who I am". For example, I'll be as organised and dilligent as the project I'm working on is paying; also as the project I'm working on is likely to re-occur so I'll be able to re-use some stuff I already did.
These ideas of "study how you do things and I'll tell you who you are" might apply to little children who haven't yet taken control over their actions; ie they do things "the way they feel like" rather than "the most optimal way for the situation given".
I think I have low neuroticism yet my experiences have tended toward the high end of neuroticism, due to my life conditions. I'm not irritable but I have been wronged and mistreated all throughout my childhood by my own parents. And since I have autism, I have been mistreated by others simply because they didn't understand me. I'm not anxious by nature, but I have experienced lots of anxiety due to actual threats which I have faced to an unhealthy and unsafe extent. And I feel like I have a stable mood by nature, but most other people do things which seem wrong to my instincts and so it triggers me to respond, and I get even more bothered when they disagree that they did anything wrong. I feel like I am surrounded by a bunch of crazy idiots and I'm the only sane one. I don't know if I would have felt much sadness or depression had I had a healthy upbringing; I always imagined that I would not, but that's not particularly meaningful coming from the eyes of a child. The reality is that I have experienced so much sadness and depression for so long that I can't place where it began and have been largely unable to self-diagnose these symptoms for most of my life. I am 38 years old now, and I didn't really start to unravel my pain and compare it to others until I was around 30 years of age.
@Fk Yu It's clearly designed for people with allism spectrum disorder. It still works for autists but some things are distinctly different, for example us being extroverted doesn't really make us much more likely to look people in the eye when we talk to them.
Hey dave, I have a question. I was having a debate with someone on the topic of transness, and they said that people are conflating identity with personality. This has me very confused about the whole topic and I was wondering the difference between personality and identity. I understand that this may or may not be a difficult question. I feel somewhat uneducated on the subject of both identity and personality.
Gibberish. Gender identity is a neuroanatomical and thus biological construct.
Hey Dave! Wanted to ask if you plan on making a differential equations playlist. Prof. Leonard is an absolute godsend for calc. But his diffEQ stuff diverged from what I needed to learn. I was lucky to have a great prof, but when it came to stuff like Laplace transformations to tackle more complicated equations, the youtube tutorials became much more scarce. From what I’ve seen there is yet to be a complete (semester 1) differential equations playlist on UA-cam.
Yes I promise I will at some point!
For calculus I have you covered already!
Professor Dave, what is your opinion about Spiral Dynamics?
Myers Briggs is based in cognitive functions. Y'all trust the cognitive functions, but DON'T trust the popular internet test. It's my opinion.
If something is going to give you more objective insight into personality, it's understanding the MB. The Big 5 may predict behavior, but won't give clear insight into who you really are or how you work with your enviornment.
Maybe we shouldn't give absolute opinions on topics that require more debate, my man. Love you tho
May I suggest personality is far more complex and chaotic than quantifiable classification. The big five may work, however it ain't necessarily so in all circumstances.
Great video as always. Agree on the point with Myers Briggs. Do you have a view on DISC?
While most of this video is good and compares to the standard dave has for the other topics, it falls yet short, so here are my nitpicks:
- Personality has nothing to do with genetics. Rather, character is often used to explain 'inherent' behaviour. Personality therefore, is changeable and may completely flip over a lifetime. That genetics have a correlation to personality, doesn't warrant the explanation given by Dave.
- The big 5 is not the be-all end-all standard for personality in Psychology. We have recently seen the introductions of both HEXACO and the Dark Traits as metrics of high interest with good research behind them. While the Big 5 is a fine scientific model, it might be replaced as de facto king soon. That said, when you really get into the field of personality, it starts to get more complex. And ultimately, papers will use the metric that fits and sometimes that won't be the big 5. Especially in clinical psychology, it is a rather uninteresting model. What is correct (and that goes for all scientific personality models, so no the MBTI), is that people can get interesting insights from the Big 5.
That's all.
You just said that personality has nothing to do with genetics, and then that genetics have a correlation to personality. What? Come on, man.
- Genetics have a lot to do with personality (heritability estimates for most traits range from 40-60%).
- The Big 5 is useful because it is both parsimonious and complex. In theory, all higher-order traits (such as the dark triad/tetrad) can be represented along those five dimensions.
How does conscientiousness predict marital fidelity???
It exhausts me every time people keep bothering me to tell them my Myers-Briggs personality test results, and even more exhausting explaining them why I think it is so annoying to take a test to flawed you are likely to get different results in different places as they present different questions, but with the same 0 or 1 results and nothing in the middle.
It is similar to zodiac signs. Best to get along with it to not ruin the fun.
Nice work Dave
Carl Jung himself (original creator of Myers Briggs before they stole it) said that people were way more complicated and that his eight chosen archetypes were simply a basis for begining to understand a person as a whole. While I do think that my type (INTP) is very accurate to how I am, I would never use it to base important life decisions on nor would I say that it is scientific. People who truly believe that it is absolutely and 100% accurate are misinformed and should take it with a grain of salt.
I did five personality test and they all said I was a c$nt. Can anyone explain what that means.
how can quantumcomputers help me to understand my personality? can i recode my personality with these timecrystals?
@Fk Yu xdxd
Can mood swings in women be classified as neuroticism ?
How do you correlate these personality types with Alpha, Beta, Sigma personalities ?
Is personality constant under all circumstances or does it change according to circumstances ?
Are there permanent changes to personality during the lifetime of an individual due to certain trauma ?
Generally women slightly lean more towards higher trait neuroticism than men as men would lean towards lower trait agreeableness.
On your second question, I am pretty sure that is based on self-help con artists trying to give sex-deprived men a sense of direction to follow whatever they are selling.
Personality is quite broad and reaction to situations can be quite different for each person long with their experiences and tolerances to uncertain situations. I am not sure if I answered your question properly so, I recommend you do more reading while I do the same.
Lastly, personality change through to trauma definitely happens. Like the heavy blow to the head, Cutting out parts of the brain, abuse of any sorts also have its effects. I remember a study of a brain transplant of sorts between two monkeys which caused the monkey to not only be paralyzed but all be extremely anger. Irrelevant here but it is still interesting.
You don’t correlate these with The alpha beta stuff, those classifications are worthless. He also mentioned in the video that under extreme situations it may change. Again, said in the video, it seems personality becomes cemented at age 30, no matter the troubles that occur during that time.
@@realhumanbean7915 Yeah, just like others would find this classification useless.
I’ve just decided I am personality fluid :P
Thank you so much
I'm a Ginny Weasley, and a Cheese and Jam sandwich 🥪
Professor dave, could you explain the alpha test's subjects please
No the best test is which friend from Friends are you I hope I'm Phoebe but I'll settle for Gunther
"Meyers Briggs is astrology for people with college degrees" - adam ruins everything (i think?)
Love a lot of things prof. Dave does, but what in the world does Introversion/Extroversion have to do with the likelihood of looking somebody in the eyes?
I'd rate myself very deeply into the introvert side of the scope, but could easily win staredown battles with most people. For me that statement seems to confuse shyness/low self esteem with introversion which merely describes loosing energy when engaging with people.
When is a video on differential equations going to come out?
I have a few things in the pipeline first but I will get back to math eventually.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Ah I see
i completely agree with your video!! i really enjoyed watching it aswell! but i personally think those mbti test are relative, why would it matter if it changes the second time you take the test? and with mbti you don’t actually have to take a test, you can just decide yourself if you’re more intro or extroverted. I do think it’s wrong using it in professional life tho (sorry for bad english)
Why would it matter if it changes? Because it's supposed to be measuring the personality that you have, which shouldn't change dramatically.
Why shouldn't it change? What's the citation for a stable lifelong personality?
Not asking you to read an entire paper but the conclusions of this 2016 meta-analysis seem to lean onto less than certain grounds of general stability.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5144810/#!po=41.6667
I just did a quick search and scan of this so perhaps I'm wrong. Still this video does imply an air of certaintude to something I'd argue is quite a bit more flexible at least from my domain in philosophy.
I like these new animations and visuals :)
There are STILL some religious hacks who believe in the 4 humors of personality. Some hack used those old terms and tried to turn it into a Meyers-Briggs personality chart.
The other thing the Meyers-Briggs kind of overcomplicates is how certain combinations of traits lead to certain personalities, which is where having each category be binary really shows its age
nice hair cut bro
I really liked this! I think I took the Myers - Briggs but I don't remember my letters. : - )
Waiting for this
I love the fact that this comes out right when Amber Heard’s diagnosis get revealed to the world lol
0:53 1st and 2nd century CE? What's CE? I've never heard of it 🤨👀.
Common era, more scientific way of saying AD.
Yes, I suppose that is a good way of putting it.
I think we all know what kind of sandwich the author of the sandwich test is: bologna.
Do yoy think you can make a video on the pseudosciences of mbti and function theory? With many people who "scientifically analyze" the personality theory, they dont talk anything about the actual cognitive functions and all they really do is prove that a personality test is inaccurate, not the system itself.
dame this is a really good content i will be watching this again
Interesting that the split between how much genetics and your environment influences your personality is roughly about 50%
I would trust more to the sandwich test, than Harry Potter test.
Its funny how science has been pooping on socionics for decades but the big five is just s renamed version of sociotype traits. I hope people who actually named and categorised these things will get credit for the idea that normal (not pathological) human personalities have an underlying structure that is in part determined by genes.
Also, agreeableness is described horribly here. You make it sound as if people who are low on this spectrum can't have any positives to them at all. Competitiveness can be a very good thing, leadership requires being able to stand up to other people and be "manipulative". Also the traits included in this spectrum are a completely nonsensical combination - you can be very nice and very manipulative, in fact i'd argue that's what we see more often in real people. You can also be very nice and honest with people but never give any ground. These are separate freaking spectrums altogether. Not to mention that kindness / niceness is not a real personality trait either, it's an outside moral judgement, completely subjective.
Ps, i respect professor Dave, i just disagree with the material.
Oh, and neuroticism is not a personality trait either. Anxiety is not a personality trait - it's mental illness. I used to worry about everything pretty much all the time and experience deep anxiety with all the related problems - disturbed sleep, panic attacs etc - untill a couple years ago when my mental health finally started recovering, and guess what, i still worry about stuff occasionally but i can't fit the anxious personality stereotype anymore, in fact 99% of the time i'm calm as a rock.
There are two separate parameters included in this spectrum as well, both of them obviously to do with sensitivity of neurons. Neurons have an activation threshold and a deactivation threshold. The first one determines how sensitive you are to stimuli, the second how your react to them. People with overly sensitive neurons are generally more reactive and nervous (again, not anxious, just nervous), with less sensitive - more confident and adventurous. If you have a high deactivation threshold, you tend to solve problems by avoidance, since emotional expiriences are more lasting, good or bad, and if it's low it's the opposite - you keep looking for more emotional involvement because it never feels like enough. Think about all the people you know who are very resilient to physical pain / discomfort and enjoy extreme activities - they probably have high activation and low deactivation threshold. Now think of all the people you know that cry every time they watch a sad movie, but keep coming back for more.
The biggest problem with MBTI is that its a bad bastartisation of socionics, which has almost none of the weaknesses you listed here. The only big problem i see with socionics is the focus on types and behaviour versus traits and tendencies, and that problem is more about the love poeople have for simplification and cotegorizing others into neat boxes.
I liked your new hair style ❣️
Awesome video!
It's kind of interesting, but in the "wild" I found a contradiction to something in this video. When it comes to "openness", I have found many people with a broad range of interests are not very good with any one in particular and have a higher rate of annoyance. Seriously, though, using a test to somehow quantify a human beings' personality in some ways seems perverse. Learning to better understand yourself takes years of personal discovery. It is what's called growth and people change, life can do that to you sometimes.
Hey I just wanna ask, whats your MBTI type/
There is something called cognitive functions in mbti
Oh boy. Wonder what Ole Jesse Lee Peterson would have to say about this witchcraft! "You hate your momma!" Lollll
Porque esta en español :0?
I'm working with a new company that allows for videos with multiple languages that you can choose from! They did the spanish dub. You can toggle with english.
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Wow that’s amazing. can’t believe you can now have different audio tracks for a UA-cam video.