122: The Science of Myers Briggs Personality Tests

Myers Briggs types are scientific evaluation of your personality… or at least that’s how they’re sold. Turns out that they might be barely more scientific than your horoscope.

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References & Further Reading
What is MBTI?

1. https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
2. https://www.mbtionline.com/en-US/Articles/2017/July/What-do-the-letters-in-the-Myers-Briggs-test-stand-for
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554596/
4. https://www.16personalities.com/country-profiles/global/world

The Origins of MBTI

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQqSnkI32A
2. https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/isabel-briggs-myers.htm
3. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06614-
4. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung/Character-of-his-psychotherapy
5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264783017_Isabel_Briggs_Myers_Psychological_Type_and_the_Spirit_of_CG_Jung

Is the MBTI Test Scientific & Useful?

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQiYiXxmjg
2. https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/carl-jung/
3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26851600/
4. https://www.livescience.com/amp/65513-does-myers-briggs-personality-test-work.html
5. https://jobtalk.indiana.edu/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/develop/mbti.pdf
6. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/00346543063004467
7. vox.com/platform/amp/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless
8. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014920639602200103
9. https://amp.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific
10. https://pages.uoregon.edu/sanjay/bigfive.html