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It’s neither meaningless nor dangerous. I’ve been part of a community that has found this helpful for decades. But a key factor with us is that we use it as a
by satisfice 4y ago
It’s neither meaningless nor dangerous. I’ve been part of a community that has found this helpful for decades.
But a key factor with us is that we use it as a preference indicator, not a reality indicator. It has heuristic value as a way of talking about universal human experiences.
I want to be thought of as an ENFP, so that’s what I call myself, even though the test thinks I am INFP. The test is not important. But the letters are shorthand for a set of policies by which my behavior can be made sense of.
Maybe there is a better way. But, no, it’s not meaningless.
- runarberg 4y agoIt is meaningless as a science, and meaningless as a utility. It’s only remaining function is entertainment. Or as OP puts it: > The Myers-Briggs is useful for one thing: entertainment. There's absolutely nothing wrong with taking the test as a fun, interesting activity, like a BuzzFeed quiz. However the industry brands it self as a utility based on science, when it is in fact neither. And I take issue with that. At best this is really really expensive entertainment exploited by big business, selling a product based on a lie.