Years ago – heck, decades – and
more than once, I was given the Myers-Briggs personality test in church
settings. I always found the
results interesting – hey, I find myself interesting. However, I did not find the results particularly useful or
insightful. I did not fit well
into any of the stereotypical personality types of the test. All the test really told me is that I
am a complex person hard to pigeonhole.
But I could have told you that without wasting time on the test.
So now I am heartened to see Wharton
prof Adam Grant agrees that Myers-Briggs is not that useful. But I am not heartened to see this test
is still popular. It is still taken by 2.5 million people
a year? Die, useless fad, die!
Grant well sums up the problem
with Myers-Briggs and its popularity – “four letters don't do justice to
anyone's identity.”
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Hat tip to Dr. Robert Munday.
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Housekeeping: I just now noticed
that I neglected to publish valid comments from back in June. I get so many spam comments that these
must have gotten overlooked.
Still, I regret this error and apologize, especially to the commenters
in question.
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