How do personality tests work? - Merve Emre
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Date: 2020-12-22
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Tek
I've heard this so many times but I honestly disagree. You have some good points but the majority are as unfounded as the test you're looking to dismiss. I have my own gripes and reasons I believe Myers Briggs isn't sufficient but you really didn't touch on most to all of them.
I've taken the test 3 times now and every time scored INTP. You say there's a right answer people will choose but I'm never prepared and I know it, why lie to a piece of paper? Developmental milestones are so much smaller of an issue here than yours trying to lead us to believe. In elementary school I was a joker with no awareness that people were people. In middle school I made that realization and became shy and introverted. High school, 20's, I'm 34 now and I'm still a shy person who gets lost in projects and study and throws away human contract for months at a time. Nothing really changed.
I do agree with the point you started but never fully covered, there should be more facets to the typology. The minimum should be 3 for each category but I would prefer 4 to 5. It's lazy to put people in to narrowly defined categories when we are more complex than that. I'm personally deeply rooted in introversion, intuition, and thinking but I'm barely over the line into perception over judgement. I'm sure a great deal of people have the same things going on with their own results.
Now, this being a big publication means I doubt you'll read this out any other comments so I'll leave it here. I could have a very lengthy discussion on this though. You're not right for the reasons you think you're right.
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I've heard this so many times but I honestly disagree. You have some good points but the majority are as unfounded as the test you're looking to dismiss. I have my own gripes and reasons I believe Myers Briggs isn't sufficient but you really didn't touch on most to all of them.
I've taken the test 3 times now and every time scored INTP. You say there's a right answer people will choose but I'm never prepared and I know it, why lie to a piece of paper? Developmental milestones are so much smaller of an issue here than yours trying to lead us to believe. In elementary school I was a joker with no awareness that people were people. In middle school I made that realization and became shy and introverted. High school, 20's, I'm 34 now and I'm still a shy person who gets lost in projects and study and throws away human contract for months at a time. Nothing really changed.
I do agree with the point you started but never fully covered, there should be more facets to the typology. The minimum should be 3 for each category but I would prefer 4 to 5. It's lazy to put people in to narrowly defined categories when we are more complex than that. I'm personally deeply rooted in introversion, intuition, and thinking but I'm barely over the line into perception over judgement. I'm sure a great deal of people have the same things going on with their own results.
Now, this being a big publication means I doubt you'll read this out any other comments so I'll leave it here. I could have a very lengthy discussion on this though. You're not right for the reasons you think you're right.
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Rishi
I first took the MBTI test in 2015, and over the years I've taken it around 10+ times and I got ENTP every time
My take is, these tests aren't as flawed as most of media makes them to be because well, they're dividing 7. 5 billion people in 2, 5, 7 or 16 categories, it should be obvious that even within a category you'll get so much variety that you'll end up questioning it's legibility, but if you think about it, this is as good as it possibly can get.
Humans aren't objective, you can't label them at all and it should also be noted that if you live your life strictly by the rules of these tests and change your behaviour as per your given personality then you're just confused so instead of living your life the way a study tells you to, rather just use it to learn about the POSSIBILITIES of what you can do.
I use MBTI for memes tbh, they're hilarious.
But it doesn't harm to acknowledge that this is far more useful than identifying people as per their zodiac signs or BuzzFeed quizzes.
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I first took the MBTI test in 2015, and over the years I've taken it around 10+ times and I got ENTP every time
My take is, these tests aren't as flawed as most of media makes them to be because well, they're dividing 7. 5 billion people in 2, 5, 7 or 16 categories, it should be obvious that even within a category you'll get so much variety that you'll end up questioning it's legibility, but if you think about it, this is as good as it possibly can get.
Humans aren't objective, you can't label them at all and it should also be noted that if you live your life strictly by the rules of these tests and change your behaviour as per your given personality then you're just confused so instead of living your life the way a study tells you to, rather just use it to learn about the POSSIBILITIES of what you can do.
I use MBTI for memes tbh, they're hilarious.
But it doesn't harm to acknowledge that this is far more useful than identifying people as per their zodiac signs or BuzzFeed quizzes.
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Rizkita
My friend who is majoring in psychology said that MBTI test is not reliable because our personality keeps changing whenever we take the MBTI test in another time. It may change after months or years. There are also psychology researchers who believe that MBTI is unreliable. My friend told me to try to use the enneagram test instead cause it's more accurate and reliable and I think it's right. Sometimes I feel attacked whenever I read my own personality based on enneagram
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My friend who is majoring in psychology said that MBTI test is not reliable because our personality keeps changing whenever we take the MBTI test in another time. It may change after months or years. There are also psychology researchers who believe that MBTI is unreliable. My friend told me to try to use the enneagram test instead cause it's more accurate and reliable and I think it's right. Sometimes I feel attacked whenever I read my own personality based on enneagram
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Gheorghe
What? Is this serious? Schools or Jobs are using them seriously? How can you be so biased to base the opinion of a person on a simple personality test.
I honestly enjoy the 16 personalities test but that's just for fun, and it actually could help in some self improvement, better understanding of what we want, who we are, but surely they can't be taken as a solid foundation.
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What? Is this serious? Schools or Jobs are using them seriously? How can you be so biased to base the opinion of a person on a simple personality test.
I honestly enjoy the 16 personalities test but that's just for fun, and it actually could help in some self improvement, better understanding of what we want, who we are, but surely they can't be taken as a solid foundation.
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Freudian
i took the MBTI test 4 times in 2 years and i got different results each time. now i see these tests as something closer to astrology than science. i think the mood you're in when you're taking the test drastically changes the resulst and a reliable categorizer shouldn't do that.
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i took the MBTI test 4 times in 2 years and i got different results each time. now i see these tests as something closer to astrology than science. i think the mood you're in when you're taking the test drastically changes the resulst and a reliable categorizer shouldn't do that.
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The
Very good video explaining the personality traits and complexity of measuring it. I have been biased in many occasion while doing such personality tests. Particularly when there are more than one option to choose. So the purpose of test is compromised.
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Very good video explaining the personality traits and complexity of measuring it. I have been biased in many occasion while doing such personality tests. Particularly when there are more than one option to choose. So the purpose of test is compromised.
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Shah
I like the end statement of how institutions should not use this as a benchmark, but a single person can use it for some self satisfaction and learn a thing or two. Benchmarking people is a tricky slope, and this Ted-Ed vid just said it aptly.
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I like the end statement of how institutions should not use this as a benchmark, but a single person can use it for some self satisfaction and learn a thing or two. Benchmarking people is a tricky slope, and this Ted-Ed vid just said it aptly.
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Alia
It never works. Not to mention how Psychology itself is still heavily biased, the ones that are taught still mostly use standards from Western perspective.
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It never works. Not to mention how Psychology itself is still heavily biased, the ones that are taught still mostly use standards from Western perspective.
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