>>13022339Jungian psychology was never psychometrically validated however, while useful to some degree for helping people when doing clinical psychology which is more of a branch of human engineering, it was never demonstrated to have any kind of accurate predictive power.
That's something you can just validate through the scientific method, you invent some kind of measure like the MBTI or the big 5 and then you see how it predicts or correlates with things in the real world, like how hard working you are or how prone to negative emotion you are, and how these things relate to career success, chances of being on anti depressants or whatever it is you're trying to predict.
I've actually read a fair bit of Jung and recently finished Modern man in search of a soul. It's interesting stuff but the point of science is to hypothesize and then verify and so you need to be careful when talking about things like spirituality because it's hard to actually verify to what degree something like that truly exists and how we could measure it.
There's a whole area of psychometrics focused on creativity and creative achievement, it's in no way dismissed or derided but it typically correlates with other measures like the big 5, so to some degree you can express the personality component with the big 5, you can't with the MBTI.
