Do Myers-Briggs tests actually work?
The personality profiles are widely used by HR departments the world over, but psychologists aren’t convinced.
by Maria Collinge
It’s easy to see why personality tests are popular in corporate settings - people are easier to manage if you understand them better.
The most famous example, still widely-used, is the Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI). Devised a century ago by mother and daughter Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers from earlier research by Carl Jung, the test predicts how individuals respond to their environment and make decisions.
MBTI scores people based on their answers across four dichotomies: introversion (I) or extraversion (E); sensing (S) or intuition (N); thinking (T) or feeling (F); judging (J) or perceiving (P).
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By Brittany KnupperDec 27th, 2020, 4:37 pm
Because 2020 has been the year of radical, uncomfortable change it’s time we let go of one of the internet’s long-held, go-to fascinations: The Myers-Briggs personality test. Not only is it mostly bogus, but the woman who created it, Isabel Briggs-Myers, was also deeply racist. (She even wrote a whole novel about it.) And even though this is not “new” news by any measure, the Myers-Briggs test has still maintained it’s popularity through constant meme-ification. But I say enough! It’s time to replace it with something far more perceptive. And by that, I mean my new YA television obsession: