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What is HN's take on MBTI? Apparently, there are entire communities on reddit dedicated to each personality type. If you go through them there's actually a patt

• iambateman 8y ago
  In my opinion, MBTI has a few key shortcomings: 1. It creates dichotomies where it ought to create distributions. A slight J is going to be much more aligned with a slight P than with a strong J. Most people are distributed near the mean on most factors but MBTI tends to exaggerate the strength of traits. 2. people misapply thinking-v-feeling and don’t understand intuiting-v-sensing. I have talked to people who wear the label of “feeler” as an excuse for not thinking. 3. You would think “introversion” was a disease from the way some people talk about their “inability to socialize at parties.” 4. MBTI projects static personality, in the sense that an individual won’t adjust their behavior under different circumstances. I believe the creators allowed for some variability at work vs home, for example, but when you hear a person talk about their type they will inevitably say “I am an INTJ” as if it were some immutable fact. Lately, I’ve found the Enneagram to be a more useful tool. It opens the door to explaining “healthy” vs “unhealthy” tendencies in the way people tend to respond. (I score as a 5 on enneagram and INTJ/INTP on MBTI)
• 4thaccount 8y ago
  I'm not saying it is 100% wrong, but I have some major reservations with it and don't think it should be legal to use in the work place as many people take these types as gospel and not in a generic fashion as they should.