Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Today, let’s talk about something very popular and a lot of people have tried to find their ‘true personality’.

This is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or 16 Personalities test.

What is it?

Before learning about Myers-Briggs, you need to know about what Personality type means actually. Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals.

Personality types are sometimes distinguished from personality traits, with the latter embodying a smaller grouping of behavioural tendencies. [1]

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

The test attempts to assign four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, judging or perceiving.

One letter from each category is taken to produce a four-letter test result, such as "INFJ" or "ENFP".

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Why do I need to know?

Though the MBTI resembles some psychological theories, it has been criticised as pseudoscience & is not widely endorsed by academic researchers in the field.

The indicator exhibits significant scientific (psychometric) deficiencies, notably including:

• Poor validity (i.e. not measuring what it purports to measure, not having predictive power or not having items that can be generalised)

• Poor reliability (giving different results for the same person on different occasions)

• Measuring categories that are not independent (some dichotomous traits have been noted to correlate with each other)

• Not being comprehensive (due to missing neuroticism).

References & Studies: -

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_type

2. https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/

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