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No, it's bunk. This is one case in which Betteridge's law of headlines applies. For most people, your MB type changes with your mood that day, or with the way y

by diego 14y ago

No, it's bunk. This is one case in which Betteridge's law of headlines applies. For most people, your MB type changes with your mood that day, or with the way you interpret the ridiculously ambiguous questions in the test.

protomyth 14y ago
I'm pretty sure its bunk, but took the test when I was 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, and got the same type each time (ENTP). I was definitely in different moods (the amount of irritation I felt at 27 taking the stupid thing was amazing).
- starky 14y ago
  At one point I took multiple different tests to compare them within a short period of time. I ended up getting 3 different results over the tests I took, I got INTP, INTJ, and ENTP. Overall I found that a lot of the test questions were not black and white enough, or just repeated with different wording on the test (essentially doubling the weighting of that question). These poor questions were present regardless of whether it was a free online one, or a so called "professionally written" one.
- namank 14y ago
  What's more amazing is that you keep taking it despite being "sure" it's bunk.
  - protomyth 14y ago
    I didn't really have a choice in the matter. I went to a summer program where it was required and then had a job where it was required. It isn't amazing, its crappy circumstances. I still have no clue why it was required at the job since it was never mentioned or the results even talked about.
    - namank 14y ago
      Yeah, fair enough. Job is how I was first introduced to it too. They could potentially use it to organize you into teams.
      - protomyth 14y ago
        To this day, I have the sneaking suspicion that it ended up in some HR persons thesis. :)
glenra 14y ago
The Libertarian Party was into Myers-Briggs for a while. The vast majority of libertarians seem to be from the "NT" quadrant (usually INTP or INTJ) - they had stats that were as a group wildly divergent from those of the population at large. The theory was that this explained why the arguments libertarians find compelling don't seem compelling to anybody else. So the goal of the resulting workshops was for people to learn to put their political arguments in ways that would appeal to the other groups. That sort of thing seems like a better use of Myers-Briggs than in the workplace.
thaumaturgy 14y ago
> For most people, your MB type changes with your mood that day... My other comments in this thread should make it clear that I'm not terribly invested in the MBTI stuff, but still: got any evidence for that? And, even if there is some evidence for that, wouldn't that same argument also apply to a person's height? "For most people, your height in cm is bunk because it changes throughout the day..."

by diego 14y ago

protomyth 14y ago

I'm pretty sure its bunk, but took the test when I was 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, and got the same type each time (ENTP). I was definitely in different moods (the amount of irritation I felt at 27 taking the stupid thing was amazing).

starky 14y ago
At one point I took multiple different tests to compare them within a short period of time. I ended up getting 3 different results over the tests I took, I got INTP, INTJ, and ENTP. Overall I found that a lot of the test questions were not black and white enough, or just repeated with different wording on the test (essentially doubling the weighting of that question). These poor questions were present regardless of whether it was a free online one, or a so called "professionally written" one.
namank 14y ago
What's more amazing is that you keep taking it despite being "sure" it's bunk.
- protomyth 14y ago
  I didn't really have a choice in the matter. I went to a summer program where it was required and then had a job where it was required. It isn't amazing, its crappy circumstances. I still have no clue why it was required at the job since it was never mentioned or the results even talked about.
  - namank 14y ago
    Yeah, fair enough. Job is how I was first introduced to it too. They could potentially use it to organize you into teams.
    - protomyth 14y ago
      To this day, I have the sneaking suspicion that it ended up in some HR persons thesis. :)

glenra 14y ago

The Libertarian Party was into Myers-Briggs for a while. The vast majority of libertarians seem to be from the "NT" quadrant (usually INTP or INTJ) - they had stats that were as a group wildly divergent from those of the population at large. The theory was that this explained why the arguments libertarians find compelling don't seem compelling to anybody else. So the goal of the resulting workshops was for people to learn to put their political arguments in ways that would appeal to the other groups. That sort of thing seems like a better use of Myers-Briggs than in the workplace.

thaumaturgy 14y ago

> For most people, your MB type changes with your mood that day... My other comments in this thread should make it clear that I'm not terribly invested in the MBTI stuff, but still: got any evidence for that? And, even if there is some evidence for that, wouldn't that same argument also apply to a person's height? "For most people, your height in cm is bunk because it changes throughout the day..."