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Hey there! Welcome to Life Noggin.
大家好！欢迎来到脑洞大开的生命奇想。
You humans love to put yourselves into categories. Dog person or cat person. Type A or type B. Scorpio or Taurus. I'll admit, I even do this sometimes.
你们人类喜欢给自己归类。狗型人格或猫型人格。A型或B型，天蝎座或金牛座。我承认，有时甚至我也会这样做。
(I'm a Ravenclaw, Virgo, ENFJ, and I love dogs AND cats, in case you were wondering.)
（我是拉文克劳，处女座，ENFJ，我喜欢狗和猫，如果你想知道的话。）
People even use these categories to make important life decisions!
人们甚至用这些分类来做重要的人生决定！
We think of these things like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other personality tests as giving us some sort of explanation as to why we are the way we are.
我们认为迈尔斯布里格斯类型指标和其他性格测试之类的东西，向我们解释了为什么我们是现在这个样子。
Because of that we place a ton of weight on them when it comes to decisions like what career path to go down or which college to attend.
正因为如此，当涉及到选择职业道路或上哪所大学等问题时，我们会非常依赖它们。
We treat them like they're based on scientific facts. But are they really that meaningful? Well for starters, let's define these terms.
好像它们有科学依据一样。但它们真的那么有意义吗？首先，我们来解释一下这些术语。
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, also known as the MBTI, is a test that supposedly reveals four facets of your personality: introversion vs. extraversion, sensing vs. intuition, thinking vs. feeling, and judging vs. perceiving.
迈尔斯布里格斯类型指标(Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)也被称为MBTI测试，它可以揭示你性格的四个方面：内向或外向，感觉或直觉，思考或感觉，判断或感知。
It involves a series of questions about your tendencies and preferences, all of which results in a set of four letters that are supposed to sum you up as a person.
它包括一系列关于你的倾向和喜好的问题，所有这些问题最终得出的结果是一组四个字母的组合，这些字母用来概括你是一个什么样的人。
Apparently people who are Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging are best suited for jobs like school administrators, airline pilots, or dentists, while ESFPs should work as teachers, flight attendants, or dental hygienists.
显然，内向、敏感、善于思考和判断能力强的人最适合做学校行政人员、飞行员或牙医等工作，而外向、依靠直觉、感情丰富和善于感知的人应该做教师，空乘人员或牙科保健人员。
Yeah. Seriously. Another common personality descriptor that people love to read into is their zodiac sign.
是的。我是认真的。人们喜欢解读的另一个常见的性格描述是星座。
Your zodiac sign, which is a sign given to you based on how the sun was aligned when you were born, is thought by many to determine a lot of your characteristics.
你的星座是根据你出生时太阳的位置来决定的，很多人认为这决定了你的大部分性格。
For instance, a Scorpio (which is someone who was born between October 23rd and November 22nd) is supposed to be jealous and stubborn, while a Capricorn (someone who was born between December 22nd and January 19th) is responsible and condescending.
例如，天蝎座(出生在10月23日到11月22日之间的人)应该是嫉妒和固执的，而摩羯座(出生在12月22日到1月19日之间的人)是负责任、有优越感的。
One common thread among these personality tests and horoscopes is something called the Barnum Effect,
在这些性格测试和占星术中有一个共同的线索叫做巴纳姆效应，
which basically says that people believe that personality descriptions given as a result of a personality test are highly accurate and suit them specifically,
这基本上是说人们相信性格测试的结果所给出的性格描述是非常准确的，并且特别适合他们，
even when the same list of traits is actually given to everyone who took the personality test.
即使每个参加人格测试的人都有相同的性格特征。
This is because the given traits are what's known as high base-rate characteristics, meaning that they're true to a large portion of the population.
这是因为给出的特征都是所谓的高基础率特征，这意味着它们适用于大部分人。
Examples of high base-rate characteristics are statements like "sometimes you're too hard on yourself" or "you really want other people to like you."
高基准率特征的例子有:“有时候你对自己太苛刻了”或“你真的想让别人喜欢你”。
Does that sound just like you? Well, it sounds like a lot of people. And that's the point.
听起来像你吗？很多人听起来都是这样的。这就是重点。
So now you might be thinking "these tests don't sound very scientific," well, you're right.
现在你可能会想“这些测试听起来不太科学”，你是对的。
While the creators of the MBTI test claimed it was based on the work of psychologist C.G. Jung, many modern psychologists agree that it's not really based in any legitimate psychology.
虽然MBTI测试的创建者声称它基于心理学家荣格(C.G. Jung)的作品，但许多现代心理学家认为，它并没有真正基于任何正统的心理学。
In fact, a group of characteristics known as the Big Five—which are extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness—are regarded as alternative personality descriptors that are actually based on the scientific method.
事实上，一组被称为“大五类人格特征”的特质——外向性、神经质人格、宜人性、严谨性与开放性——被认为是另一种基于科学方法的个性描述。
It's believed that the Big Five may actually have some bearing on things like job performance, and some scientists have even worked to locate regions of the brain that can be associated with individual aspects of the Big Five.
有人认为，大五类人格特征可能与工作表现等因素有关，一些科学家甚至致力于定位大脑中与大五类的各个方面相关的区域。
In their 2010 study, they found that conscientiousness, for example, is significantly correlated with the volume of the middle frontal gyrus, a section of the brain's prefrontal cortex.
在他们2010年的研究中，他们发现，例如严谨性，与大脑额叶前部皮层的中脑回体积有显著的关联。
So while the Big Five appear to be legitimate, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other tests that heavily depend on the Barnum Effect seem, well, fake.
因此，大五类人格特征似乎是正统的，而迈尔斯-布里格斯类型指标和其他严重依赖巴纳姆效应的测试似乎是假的。
So don't worry if you don't know your personality type or if it changes every time you take the test—it won't do you that much good anyway.
所以，如果你不知道自己的性格类型，或者每次参加测试性格类型都会发生变化，不要担心，这对你没有多大好处。
And you're fine the way you are! So do you have a personality type? Do you believe in horescopes? Let me know in the comment section below.
你现在的样子很好！你有人格类型吗？你相信占星术吗？请在下面的评论部分告诉我。
Or tell us, what should we talk about next! Wanna watch another Life Noggin video? How about this episode on what if you never see the Sun?
或者告诉我们，接下来我们应该讨论什么！想看我们节目别的视频吗？这一集怎么样？《如果你从没见过太阳》。
If you were never exposed to any sunlight, you would almost definitely be lacking in this important nutrient unless you were taking vitamin D supplements.
如果你从未接触过阳光，你几乎肯定会缺乏这种重要的营养，除非你服用了维生素D补充剂。
It's almost impossible to get the amount of vitamin D you need from food alone.
仅仅从食物中获取人体所需的维生素D几乎是不可能的。
As always, my name is Blocko. This has been Life Noggin. Don't forget to keep on thinking!
我是宝高，这里是脑洞大开的生命奇想。思考不要停！
