122: The Science of Myers Briggs Personality Tests

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122: The Science of Myers Briggs Personality Tests

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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?

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



The Origins of MBTI

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



Is the MBTI Test Scientific & Useful?

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