>I'm not here to discuss how accurate it is
Then why discuss it at all
Myers briggs was made up by people with no scientific background.
Neither Isabel Briggs Myers nor Katherine Briggs had any formal psychological training.
Even renowned psychological theorist Carl Jung, whose writing formed the initial inspiration for the Myers-Briggs test, admitted that terms such as “introvert” and “extrovert” were false dichotomies and entirely too limited to either adequately describe or predict human behavior.
Up to half of the people who take the test a second time end up with a different personality classification, even if they take it within five weeks of the first test, just like a fucking horoscope.
According Annie Murphy Paul’s The Cult of Personality Testing, “as many as three-quarters of test takers achieve a different personality type when tested again…and the sixteen distinctive types described by the Myers-Briggs have no scientific basis whatsoever.”
Multiple studies have clearly demonstrated that the MBTI is incapable of accurately predicting job performance.
The test is used by most Fortune 500 corporations, but it is not typically used by professional psychologists.
Stanford University psychology professor Carl Thoreson, who is on the board of the company that issues the MBTI, has never mentioned the test in the over 150 academic papers he’s published. “I didn’t use it in any of my research,” Thoreson says, “in part because it would be questioned by my academic colleagues.”
The National Academy of Arts and Sciences conducted a study that concluded that the S-N and T-F scales had little to no validity.
There is absolutely no scientific basis for the test’s terminology, which has been criticized as “vague and general.”
Need i go on? It's pseudoscience that tells us what we want to hear. Just like most science fiction.
