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Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
Vox ^ | July 15, 2014 | Joseph Stromberg

Posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:34 AM PDT by EveningStar

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is probably the most widely used personality test in the world.

An estimated 2 million people take it annually, at the behest of corporate HR departments, colleges, and even government agencies. The company that makes and markets the test makes somewhere around $20 million each year.

The only problem? The test is completely meaningless.

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KEYWORDS: myersbriggs; personalitytest; psychology; typeindicator
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To: MHGinTN
I favor the ancient Greek’s quadrant approach (Galen’s four types: cholerics, melancholics, phlegmatics, and sanguines). Add that there only two types of humans (conscious and unconscious, relating to recognizing why they do what they do), and you have a very useful sorting system.

Sorting system… four types… I know what this calls for:

…I got Hufflepuff.
😒

61 posted on 07/17/2014 11:02:26 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
INTJ here.

No, no - you can't be introverted if you volunteered that in public. ;)

62 posted on 07/17/2014 11:31:25 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: NorthMountain

I can, but it’s unreasonable. It should have become burocrat long ago. This would also cause less confusion, since it would separate the buro office from the furniture bureau. See, “Tri-boro bridge” as an attempt to similarly change “borough” to “boro.”


63 posted on 07/17/2014 11:38:59 AM PDT by dangus
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To: no-s

He didn’t. He used an anonymous post.


64 posted on 07/17/2014 11:39:29 AM PDT by dangus
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To: EveningStar

We’re a rare breed!


65 posted on 07/17/2014 11:42:31 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: dangus

Well ...

I disagree. A bureau is both an office, and a desk with drawers in said office ... typically a government office.

However ...

I could go along with spelling it “burro-crat” ...


66 posted on 07/17/2014 11:42:36 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

That’s just it... people rarely mean a desk when they say a bureau. Typically, they mean a set-of-drawers for clothes. If you mean a desk, by all means, lump it in with the office.


67 posted on 07/17/2014 12:10:09 PM PDT by dangus
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To: tbw2

>> Some personality types do better in different jobs. <<

I’d even be less direct, and say merely tat some personality types have an affinity towards skill sets useful in certain jobs.


68 posted on 07/17/2014 12:11:18 PM PDT by dangus
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To: EveningStar

INTJ
89,25,50,22

Totally me.


69 posted on 07/17/2014 12:13:14 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: EveningStar
It is interesting to see the preponderance of admitted introverts using this measure who have posted to this thread.

"ENTJ" FReegards!

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70 posted on 07/17/2014 12:27:43 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: no-s
I see.
You must be an ENFP.
71 posted on 07/17/2014 12:51:06 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: dangus

Oh - I thought he’d be an ISTP


72 posted on 07/17/2014 12:52:07 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: reed13k

danggit ISFP


73 posted on 07/17/2014 12:52:32 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: EveningStar

It’s useless because any self-respecting sociopath can fool a bunch of HR people.


74 posted on 07/17/2014 12:55:56 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: 1rudeboy

HAHAHAHA


75 posted on 07/17/2014 1:57:58 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: Dr. Thorne

HEY...I WAS in HR....when it was a legitimate, USEFUL part of the management team....I quit...because it began to feel like I was working for the Government, and I hated it. Babysitting at times, too. Once sat with the Oregon Intel FAB site Director at a 6am meeting of mfg groups....he turned to me and said...”why are we here? to babysit?” Or something like that. That was the beginning of my decline in HR...INTEL had a manual 3 inches thick of “policies”....I once fired someone on night shift (drugs)...without telling my boss till a.m.....I almost got fired on THAT one....but, I did the right thing...and survived.


76 posted on 07/17/2014 2:01:11 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: Veto!

I wish. I stumbled on it some time ago.


77 posted on 07/17/2014 2:49:29 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: EveningStar

I’ve taken the test at least a dozen different times over 30+ years. Always come out clearly ISTJ - and the type information fits me pretty well. I think that the author is trying to read more into the test than it is meant for - it just points out personality tendancies, it can’t predict how anyone will act in a specific situation.


78 posted on 07/17/2014 7:08:01 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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