The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
This is so poorly thought out. I really don&#x27;t get why some people can&#x27;t seem to tell the difference between things like MBTIs and astrological signs&#x2F;zodiacs&#x2F;horoscopes in terms of their potential to classify people in a meaningful way...<p>One is an arbitrary mapping of a person&#x27;s date of birth to an set of traits and prophesies.<p>The other is a brief summary of a person&#x27;s personality&#x2F;behavioral inclinations based on a survey of that person&#x27;s stated behavior and inclinations. When you say MBTI can be &quot;just as arbitrary,&quot; what you&#x27;re claiming is that it might be true that there is zero correlation between how any individual person of a given personality type answers any of the 93 MBTI questions. Sure, there is variation in people&#x27;s self-assessments (and personalities for that matter, but let&#x27;s ignore that for the moment) over time, but it wouldn&#x27;t be &quot;just as arbitrary&quot; unless it had no correlation at all with basically anything about the person. I find that claim to be completely implausible.<p>The only way it could be true that it is meaningless is if upon repeated testings, knowing a person&#x27;s formerly reported MBTI provided no insight <i>at all</i> into what MBTIs are more likely than for the average person in subsequent testings. That&#x27;s certainly not the case that&#x27;s been found in the research, so at the very least, it provides insight into what a person thinks that they are like.<p>Even if it were the case that all the MBTIs are only related to positive traits (which isn&#x27;t true), the idea that it is meaningless is just nonsense.