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Research in psychology: are we learning anything?
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(The Enneagram was apparently invented by a series of spiritual teachers, and until Isabel Briggs Myers popularized her eponymous personality test, she was most famous for writing racist detective stories.) The ClearerThinking folks checked how well each test predicted things about participants’ lives, like whether they’re married, own a home, have been convicted of a crime, meditate daily, and have a lot of friends. Scientific revolutions arise from crises—that moment when we’ve piled up too much stuff that doesn’t make sense and the dam finally breaks, washing away our old theories and giving us space to build new ones The classic example is epicycles, the little loop-de-loops that old-timey astronomers had to add to the orbits of heavenly bodies so that the math on geocentrism kept working out:
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