Looks like the Myers-Briggs personality test is a big pile of dung that fooled many people

[Welcome_hubby]

If you frequent internet blogs, you may have heard people sharing their discovery of being an INTJ, ENTJ, ENFP, etc. Those are personality types conceived by two people who created it based on th work of psychologist Carl Jung.

Today a Washington Post article notes that,

1) Carl Jung's work came before personality psychologists empirically tested their hypotheses.
2) "It’s about belief much more than scientific evidence" according to academics.

The company that sells this test makes 20 million a year off it.

The "Big Five" or "Five Factor" model, on the other hand, has been validated and is used by numerous top-notch psychologists and seen in major journals.

Read the piece here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/myers-briggs-does-it-pay-to-know-your-type/2012/12/14/eaed51ae-3fcc-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

[LiberalEsto]

1. I always thought of it as high-toned "woo" nt

[On the Road]

2. The Historical Background in the Article is Interesting

but it really didn't establish that there were problems with Meyers Briggs, just that presumably it was not evaluated by peer-reviewed studies.

There are different ways of breaking down personality and they are not mutually exclusive. Meyers-Briggs categories are very predictive of certain patterns of behavior, which they should be if the model is valid.

The Five Factor model may be fine, too, but it's not necessary to disparage its more successful predecessor.