If you think it is a good classification, tell me your personality type. Mine is INTP.
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
I found this interesting talk on personality types:
They compared MBTI types to neuroscans by EEG. It says they are identifiable.
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.
I found this article saying that it's nearly scientific: [psychologyjunkie.com]
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.
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.
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.
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.