Objective psychometrics
From Future
Psychometrics is the identification of various character traits, and the quantification of said traits in different individuals.
At the current point in history, the science of psychometrics is hardly worthy of being called a science at all, because several of the so-called character traits that are measured are very arbitrary, being unrelated to a person's core character. It's like judging a person's character by how many bananas they've eaten last year.
Perhaps, in the future, these old absurd parameters will be shed, and replaced with the accurate parameters.
The arbitrary psychometric parameters of the status quo exist in the 2 popular systems: OCEAN and MBTI. 'OCEAN' is an acronym that stands for the 5 parameters that it measures. 'MBTI' stands for Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator. The OCEAN system has the parameters: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neurosis. The MBTI system has the parameters: introversion vs extroversion, sensation vs intuition, thinking vs feeling, and perceiving vs judging.
Of all of those traits, the only objective ones are conscientiousness and neurosis, and neurosis is a relatively trivial trait to be measuring. The trait of 'introversion vs extroversion', while not a core character trait in itself, is at least substantially correlated to core character traits. The trait of 'perceiving vs judging' has some correspondence with a person's degree of self-control, and therefore has partial validity. The trait of 'perceiving vs judging' however conflates flexibility with poor self-control.
The most arbitrary traits are openness, agreeableness, sensation vs intuition, and thinking vs feeling. The trait of openness is an arbitrary agglomeration of personal preferences. The trait of agreeableness is highly subjective, being based largely upon personal preferences. The trait of 'sensation vs intuition' is largely based upon a very arbitrary trait- how much time a person spends in their senses versus in their head. The trait of 'sensation vs intuition' conflates thought in general with a person's depth. Although some people have generally stronger emotions than others, the trait of 'thinking vs feeling' conflates feeling in general with sympathy specificly.
The most important of the true psychometric parameters relate to a person's fundamental focus, which is a little-publicized yet essential aspect of psychology. Fundamental focus includes 2 psychometric parameters, which are 'egotism vs humility' and 'oneness vs loneness'. The next most important psychometric parameter is 'conscientiousness vs sleaziness'. Apparently, the people that created the OCEAN system did not want to use the word 'sleazy' when describing people, lest there be strong opposition to their system, but sleaziness is in fact the opposite of conscientiousness. Conscientiousness has a strong interplay with the various types of fundamental focus. The next most important true psychometric parameter is 'strong self-control vs weak self-control', a trait which has some interplay with the trait of conscientiousness, and in turn, the traits of fundamental focus.
