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The Type Error

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It is an error to treat personality as a set of discrete types rather than as continuous dimensions.

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Scores on introversion-extraversion form one continuous distribution with most people near the middle, not two clusters.

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Type sorting is popular because it is memorable. Splitting a continuous scale at its midpoint discards most of the information.

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