Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1134 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Type Error
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The idea
It is an error to treat personality as a set of discrete types rather than as continuous dimensions.
In practice
Scores on introversion-extraversion form one continuous distribution with most people near the middle, not two clusters.
Where people slip
Type sorting is popular because it is memorable. Splitting a continuous scale at its midpoint discards most of the information.
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