To build off of this, MBTI isn't actually public domain any more than the Hogwarts Houses The copyright on the official MBTI is held by the Centre for Applications of Psychological Type, run by the Myers-Briggs Foundation It's a big business that charges people a LOT of moneyhttps://twitter.com/EmeryLeeWho/status/1292119992289304577 …
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You, yourself, may have just taken a free knockoff test online and joke about it with your friends and never given them a cent, sure Just like it's perfectly possible to do a Hogwarts House quiz and never give JKR a cent of your money But you're still supporting the brand
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To a very great extent the MBTI people profit directly from free marketing All the talk random Internet people do about your Myers-Briggs type like it's a real, accepted and commonly known thing is free advertising for them
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The best description of the mbti types was “astrology for millennials”.
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Hold on that can’t be right: millennials love astrology. Maybe it was hipsters? I’ve ruined this.
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Although there's a lot of overlap, the openly weird hip young people tend to be into actual astrology MBTI covers everything with this thick layer of respectable pseudoscience so you can sell it at business retreats and to hiring managers and on college campuses and shit
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Re young people, maybe it’s a class thing? I was always shocked at the number of middle class white people on dating apps who shared their “type”.
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Yeah you could call it astrology for yuppies
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