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IMO the biggest issue with MBTI types is the lack of "unaligned" letters. Someone at 51% of the way between "P" and "J" probably doesn't meaningfully express t
by delecti 5y ago
IMO the biggest issue with MBTI types is the lack of "unaligned" letters. Someone at 51% of the way between "P" and "J" probably doesn't meaningfully express their "J", but would still get "INTJ" the same as if they had scored 100% of the way to "J". Adding an "X" to the middle of each scale would probably help differentiate between people genuinely expressing one end or the other of the scale, and the middle who don't really. Of course then the test probably would have never gotten popular, because most people would have a few Xs in their score and it's a lot less catchy of an idea then.
- nradov 5y agoIMO the biggest issue with MBTI types is reducing personality traits to exactly 4 dimensions. Why not 3 or 5? It's completely arbitrary.
- delecti 5y agoThat actually doesn't bother me at all. Any test attempting to group people into a finite number of categories will necessarily look need to limit the analysis to a finite number of dimensions. The more dimensions you look at the more groupings you'll end up with. Add those together and a consequence is you want to have fewer dimensions if possible, but not so few that the groupings are overly broad. Maybe 3 or 5 would have been better, but it's clear that thought went into the decision, and that it was obviously not an arbitrary decision.