Think you’re an ESTJ? or an INFJ? or an ENTP?
Think again.
If those acronyms aren’t
familiar, you probably never took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality
test.
A little news item on Vox.com is a stunner: the Myers-Briggs test
seems to be a load of what the farmer takes away….
"There's
just no evidence behind it," says Adam Grant, an organizational
psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania who's written about the shortcomings of the Myers-Briggs previously.
"The characteristics measured by the test have almost no predictive
power on how happy you'll be in a situation, how you'll perform at your
job, or how happy you'll be in your marriage."
I took the test once, way back,
I forgot what type it said I was.
Something like 2 million people
do the Myers-Briggs every year, usually in the workplace. On the management retreat, or in the professional development seminar, or whatever....the company that now
owns the Myers-Briggs concept makes about $20 million a year from licensing the
test.
It was
launched in the 1940s, reports Vox.com, and is based on “untested theories of
an outdated analytical psychologist named Carl Jung, and is now thoroughly
disregarded by the psychology community. . .the test is totally ineffective at
predicting people's success in various jobs, and. . . about half of the people
who take it twice get different results each time.”
Here’s a
tip: don’t put your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator on your resume.
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