Reply #55: Myers-Briggs is snake oil and tends to be only used... [View All]

[BigBluenoser]

for corporate "feel good" and teamwork training sessions and by consultants. The process of doing the MBTI can be beneficial in a corporate setting in that it gets people talking about how to better work together with different types of people (regardless of what the results actually mean or do not mean.)

As a personality test it worthless as it has no validity (we have no reason to believe it measures what it claims to measure). It has also been shown to be of little use for predicting anything at all.

Take a look at all the different typologies. Notice how cheery each of them are? Kind of happy huh? A bit like a horoscope one could say. It is a feel good exercise.

There are good reasons the Big-5 personality test is used in most personality research and why the MBTI is relegated to Slick Dick the Consultant's Snake Oil Emporium.

Basically it is about as useful as the "what color are you" garbage.

So yeah, I agree. T'is shit.

BTW, I'm an ENTJ :)