Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-power-of-us/202608/why-are-we-suckers-for-pseudoscientific-personality-tests

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most popular and well-known measure of personality. Fifty million people have taken the assessment and it has been used by 89% of Fortune 500 companies at some point to screen and evaluate employees, generating millions of dollars in annual revenue for the Myers-Briggs Company.

People put their Myers-Briggs category on their Tinder profiles, and several years ago funders even put up $1 million to develop an app matching couples based on their Myers-Briggs personality types. While the Myers-Briggs test is telling people who to hire and marry, scientists hate it. As Laith Al-Shawaf has noted, “Any psychologist will tell you, it’s mostly bulls**t.”

I had to take a personality test during a job interview once. Needless to say, that office dynamic was toxic as fuck.

Acing a course in psychometry over a decade ago has left me with strong opinions about personality tests and a general disillusionment with human resources itself as an industry.

Because most of us would rather be fluffed than told we're fucked.

Timothy Leary was an actual psychology professor who became famous in the 1960's for advocating the use of LSD. He was eventually arrested and sent to prison.

While in jail he was given a psychology test to help the officials determine where he should be placed. After he took the test they decided that he was a co-operative fellow with little ambition and perfectly safe to be allowed out of the prison to help landscape the area.

They were a bit surprised after he escapes, and more amazed when they learned he had written the test himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

Did they use terms like "a good culture fit?"

You know it hahaha

It's because of a basic lack of critical thinking and science education. That's what happens when Republicans cheapen the public schools for 50 years.

Myers-Briggs was designed in the 1940's. Its popularity over more accurate tests is attributed to the attractive categories as opposed to a set of fluid traits.

You're not wrong. If American schools were any good they'd be more aware that there are other countries

“Any psychologist will tell you, it’s mostly bulls**t.”

Any scientist will tell you, psychology is mostly bullshit.

He was eventually arrested and sent to prison.

20 years for possession of two roach clips.

Disagree.

If this is simply your defense of the Myers Briggs test, don't you see that the test roots it's legitimacy in claiming to be a part of the science of psychology? And therefore if psychology is fake, MBTI is also fake

If not in defense of MBTI, then all I have to say is that I disagree.

Does the MBTI even have any negative results though?

It seems to just say. "You're this, you're that". Then shower you with some praise in case you don't like this or that.

It's all fluff. My brother calls it astrology for LinkedIn.

Most people are eager to learn about themselves

would it be the job of a personality test to judge a trait as"bad'? everything depends on context, which the test is ignorant of.

Free country btw