It's astrology for folks who went to business school.
The Myers-Briggs personality types were invented in 1944 based on Jungian psychoanalysis concepts from the 1920s. They've never been valid, and have been obsolete for over 60 years. Companies and therapists that use them are committing scientific malpractice.pic.twitter.com/qsdSXM7jzq
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Precisely.
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Opinion or current dogma based on multiple studies and corroborated by peer review?
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Myers Briggs has been totally supplanted by the Big Five traits in personality research. Google Scholar shows 17k publications for Myers Briggs in the last 20 years, versus about 1.1 million for Big Five.
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I think that's a bit drastic. Plus, the discounting of psychology as a hard science has occurred since its inception. It's not a hard science, it's a behavioral science. Until better tools are devised (there are some), this will be the standard alongside the MMPI-2
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Yes, the Big Five system (OCEAN) is much better, and I've often used it in my research.
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I've sometimes wanted to write a paper about this, but don't know enough about Jungian archetypes yet. I think it's worth exploring.
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