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

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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