I feel you have to take it with a grain of salt. Understand that the 16 types are comprised of 4 binary pairs of traits on which you can score anywhere on a continuum for each, indicating that you are strong, medium, or weak on each of those traits, though the 16 types don't recognize such subtleties. And then there is the problem of whether its even valid to consider one trait to be binary to another. Still, I find it to be a useful desciptive shorthand of personality to use informally. Thanks for the links.

Don't know but when I found out I was Elrond and Lady Macbeth it made my day!

Administering the Myers-Briggs helps pad the profit of administering the Strong Interest Inventory, which actually works. And the Myers-Briggs is also a good conversation starter.

It would be nice to have a way to quantify personality traits, the idea behind Myers is appealing. IQ is well documented and the autism spectrum widely accepted though I can't speak on it.

we have known this for a long long time but some people seem to like it - Its like fortune telling people will go - at best its giving people a bit of fun and a notion of how they could live a life as that sort of person at worst its just useless/pointless but who are we to judge someone who looks at their stars in the newspapers every day.

I have always used Dunning–Kruger.

'cause it sounds science-ey?

Glad to hear you say that.
I was at odds years back with my management team because I refused to accept any of it.

Ha! I always suspected that it was BS. ?

Pretty good question. I don't agree with... its misleading... and most of all.... well, never mind.

ENFP Libra - It has the same fascination about personality that horoscopes do. It's entertaining, nothing life changing.