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To MBTI skeptics: I agree that the MBTI is a flawed instrument, but do you assert that personality testing is intrinsically flawed, that personalities don't hav
by jey 17y ago
To MBTI skeptics: I agree that the MBTI is a flawed instrument, but do you assert that personality testing is intrinsically flawed, that personalities don't have measurable patterns/traits/components? Why? Is it really that inconceivable that there are broad tendencies and trends in personality? Is everyone such a "unique snowflake" that there's no patterns or trends?
I personally think there's definitely some underlying dominant factors, but the fact is that determining what they are and measuring them is really hard, because it's really hard to do substantive psychology in a truly scientific manner. I think something like a principal components analysis should be possible in the theoretical ideal -- and binary trait based schemes are just a crude approximation to such a scheme. For example, scoring as "ENTP" wouldn't mean that you have zero introversion, or zero feelings -- just that you score closer to E than I, etc.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoHow can you go so easily from believing there is such a thing as personality traits to supporting a complex, copyrighted system that has no valid research basis and is actively sold to big business HR departments with the disclaimer that it is basically nothing more than a party game? People with an interest in the science of personalities should dislike MBTI more than casual observers. It's a pop-culture perversion of the entire field.
- jey 17y agoLike I said, I think the MBTI is broken. I'm asking why people act as though the idea of personality testing is intrinsically flawed from the get-go and on the level with astrology and numerology.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI don't believe personality testing is intrinsically flawed so I can't speak for those that do but ... I think the answer to that question could be that the first exposure to the field is MBTI which is blatantly nonsense and generally promoted by people who wouldn't know science if it bit them on the ass.