I read a book tearing into the dangerous proliferation of pop psych personality quizzes like 20 years ago, and since then it's only gotten worse I mean at least people are now turning against JKR and Hogwarts Houseshttps://twitter.com/ithayla/status/1369409950355759118 …
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Like yeah if you take a Greek mythology quiz or a Star Wars quiz or an MCU characters quiz and the result really speaks to you and resonates with you, that's valid And by definition the more strongly you feel about it the more valid it is But it's a starting point, not endpoint
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It should spark a conversation about why you feel that way, what specifically about the character speaks to you (because all characters and myths are Rorschach blots), how it relates to stuff that's actually happening to you in your real life
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Not presupposing that the infinite wisdom of the simple computer program behind the quiz correctly put you in a box that tells people everything they need to know about you
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This is all stuff that's really obvious when you come out and say it out loud, but it's something people kind of willfully ignore when they treat "scientific" quizzes like MBTI like they're any different from a "Which House, MD character are you?" quiz
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And people really seriously do treat such pseudoscience like it's a shortcut to actually doing the work of a therapist or a counselor, to actually fucking talking to the person and asking *in detail* how they feel and what's going on with them
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