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[quote=Anonymous]WRT MBTI: Nooooope.

The way it was developed fails all measures of scientific rigor. Personality is supposed to be stable over time, yet people often find that they are different Myers-Briggs types depending on the year (or even day) they take the inventory. The types in each dimension are supposed to be opposites —introvert and extrovert, thinking and feeling, sensing and intuitive, and judging and perceiving. If there really are two types within each of these dimensions, there should be bimodality when the data is normed. Yet, there isn’t: The data cluster around the middle.

Further, I think the MBTI data is used in really harmful ways. If you take it like a Buzzfeed quiz and better understand yourself, then fine. But if hiring managers make decisions using it, then they may lose out on great talent for no good reason. Personnel managers may make team grouping decisions that have little to do with hard skills and organizational talent and everything to do with personality voodoo. [/quote]

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