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What do you think about Myers-Briggs personality types? Do you find it scientific?

If you think it is a good classification, tell me your personality type. Mine is INTP.

sidambhire 3 Nov 14
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It measures what it measures (a bit like the IQ test). The same person can give different responses at different times depending on a number of factors, resulting in different measurements over time.

There are other and more useful measures, such as the Big Five as mentioned by @Matias

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I found this interesting talk on personality types:

They compared MBTI types to neuroscans by EEG. It says they are identifiable.

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I've heard it called 'astrology for those that don't believe in astrology.'

Here are some links I pulled together early in 2018 when I was curious about such personality tests.

[shrm.org]
[vox.com]
[theguardian.com]
[skeptoid.com]

I found this article saying that it's nearly scientific: [psychologyjunkie.com]

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It was developed by people with no formal psychology training and has very poor test-retest reliability. Every time you take the real one (not some little 20 question stuff you find on the web), you are likely to have a different type... It isn't scientific or valid, and has no predictive ability.

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I took it for the 1st time today and found I was an EST J. It was frustrating to me that Up this I had to pick because each time I felt I had characteristics from both sides.

Since the actual question was whether or not I believe in it, I will have to say I think it is moderately correct.

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I found it to be illuminating. It helped me focus on personality characteristics as being akin to right handedness or left handedness. The idea that personality characteristics may not be a choice.

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If you don't know who you are a test is not going to tell you. Therapy might help, but not a test.

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I think it's a parlor game. It was invented by a mother-daughter duo as a way to see personalities. However, it has failed every scientific attempt at validation, and should just be used for entertainment.

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I’ve found it useful in self examination, as did my now adult children, as several college classes suggested they take it. A stepping stone to a broad set of personality possibilities, often in need of refining on a personal level..

Varn Level 8 Nov 14, 2019
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I don’t know how scientific it is...but it seems reasonably to have summed up my personality type....when I took the test it assessed me as ESFP...which according to them makes up only 5% of the population.

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