Enneagrams

[Little lunch]

Has anyone else here had any experience with enneagrams?
Did you find using this method helpful?
If so, in what way?
Or do you think it's pseudo science?

[ignoramus]

I think it's definitely woo man... each to their own though.

[LuisDantas]

If nothing else, enneagram reminds us that people don't really conform to a single stereotype, and that traits tend to correlate with each other in often unexpected ways.

It can be intriguing and encourage a bit of questioning and curiosity, so generally it is not a bad thing, unless you take it too seriously.

Because sure, it is pseudo-science. It has no true method to speak of, no falseability, no way to conduct experiments and correct its doctrine in an objective way.

Still, it is a marked improvement over, say, Freudian conceptions of personality, which suffer from the same shortcomings without having the built-in safeguard of encouraging people to be in some doubt of whether they guessed the personality type correctly.

[brewer]

Ennegrams, no experience, Strippergrams, 1 experience.

[Aegon]

Oh I do not like anything that tries to categorize people's personalities.

[brewer]

Oh I do not like anything that tries to categorize people's personalities.

I knew it, a damn Aquarius.

[Cyberman]

Read that as anagrams; thought up brilliant joke.

Actually I didn't, but wanted to get in before anyone else did.

[ignoramus]

Still, it is a marked improvement over, say, Freudian conceptions of personality, which suffer from the same shortcomings without having the built-in safeguard of encouraging people to be in some doubt of whether they guessed the personality type correctly.

So you're saying I can safely stop trying to shag my mother now?

But.....but..... I'm scared of strangers!