So, some small elements of MBTI are useful- mostly it can tell you a degree of introversion/extraversion. But you can basically ignore your type information, and the DEGREE of I/E is the important bit, not which "type" you are, and it also bundles this up with neuroticism.
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Replying to @MJWhitehead @arthur_affect
Still better than the vast majority of personality tests out there.
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Replying to @upine @arthur_affect
Yes, viewed as a personality test it's very good in comparison, eh? But that's not how it's sold. It is sold as a rigorous psychological assessment with application to business and insight into inter-type dynamics. It's frankly surprising they haven't been sued for those claims.
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Replying to @MJWhitehead @upine
"Very good" compared to what, Buzzfeed quizzes? Nobody actually pays hundreds or thousands of dollars to go through a self-help program based on other personality tests or to become licensed to run such a program themselves Companies don't use them in hiring and assessment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MJWhitehead
Yes, very good compared to most psychological tests-- but not for the purposes it's been used for.
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Replying to @upine @MJWhitehead
No, it isn't, I would argue it's substantially worse than Big Five or DISC (though I don't like tests in general)
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Even just the framing of it as a bipolar scale between "Thinking and Feeling" etc means it's making a more sweeping claim than tests that just claim to measure "How much of this quality do you have from 0 to 100" even if it's mathematically equivalent
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That, plus the notorious vagueness and changeability of the categories MBTI purports to measure, is why MBTI "types" are so unstable People will turn up wildly different responses if you catch them in a different mood or setting or phrase the questions slightly differently
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MJWhitehead
There's a big controversy in personality psychology overall about exactly that. "whether personality is stable across time (trait-level) or whether it can vary across time (state-level)" So she was not unique, or uniquely mistaken, about that issue.https://www.thecareerproject.org/blog/trait-vs-state-theory-in-personality/ …
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Replying to @upine @MJWhitehead
Okay but I'm going further than that I'm not saying it's because people actually change over time, I'm saying it may be because how they feel about the *test* changes, how they feel about the *definition* of words like "rational" or "intuitive"
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My MBTI result changed drastically from INTP to INFJ after college I do not think this is actually because I changed my "dominant function" during that time, I think it's because I recognized that when I said I was a "rational" person before, I was wrong
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MJWhitehead
Yes, the test isn't accurate 4 every1. & college can change understandings of mngs of words like rational. IBM was like all of us a flawed human. I didn't know b4 she was racist. She overestimated scope of what she found. Later personality psychologists will hopefully learn more
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