Not super interesting to belittle the concept by the inventor’s other accomplishments because Psychology always needed creative origins. Let’s remember Id, Ego and Superego were also dreamed up concepts by a creative, drug-doing type.
And if we can respect Freud, MyersBriggs is based in the workings of Jung, and therefore it had a good start. Accuracy was always measureable later. And some personality scale overtime would need to find prominence by representing folks accurately.
And now to boot, my personal data suggest MyersBriggs works well :)
The piece on the show continues, but isn't available on YouTube,so I will give you this article. Basically, it hasn't been measured and proven accurate. It's prominent because of money - it makes lots. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/myers-briggs-does-it-pay-to-know-your-type/2012/12/14/eaed51ae-3fcc-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.40dc4f5d174flots
Basically, it's fun and interesting, but not psychological science. I'm an INFP, and I'm a Leo - both are things where I can see aspects of myself, but neither are scientific in nature. Another point on M-B, is that people flip on it: I used to be an extreme extrovert, now I'm an extreme introvert. Personality is not static.
“Flaws” in MyersBriggs or people’s semi-fluid scores do not disprove it as an objective grounds for understanding our personalities. Horoscopes are an entirely different thing: they do not provide objective baselines for analysis as they test us for literally nothing other than our birth dates. Stick with MyersBriggs to gain any real insights about personal interactions.
The fact that it suits you as an anecdotal success is, really, little more than astrology and general cold reading, just digitized. Anyone can give an incredibly detailed essay yon your personality by doing little more than giving a second glance, just see Derren Brown's incredible cold reading trick that blows them all away as proof.
When you answer questions like 'yes I like to be alone' 'I find myself in my own world' 'i don't like to work under pressure' and 'I prefer to take a back seat' - It's hardly a surprise that the results come back saying
From there it's not hard to extrapolate with high probability of success that:
And so on. The intent may have not been to trick people, but the outcome is little more, at the end of the day.
There's no actual new insight being reported in the test, it's just structuring your own thoughts about yourself that you manually input, into lengthy paragraphs - which is nice in its own way (Mine was basically 100% accurate when I tried it as an INTP and helped me explain my weirdness to some people) but it is important to accept that it's not much more than hocus pocus in its methodology.
Because of this, more importantly, one should not let the test define you. as many people do. By looking at it agreeably and unconditionally, a person is subject to establish themselves as that for life, but as others have pointed out, we are more complicated than that. My sister was once an extreme extrovert and now she is far more in line with introversion. Almost everybody who takes the test gets a different result six months later precisely because environmental experiences, surrounding friends and more changes us over time.
One might find the perfect INTP woman, but if they are made to believe the love is because she's INTP, when she inevitably shifts to, say, ENFJ, they;re going to resent the change and everything will fall apart - because the person in this story has defined them on faith as one state of personality.
Remember, you are not JUST 80% Introverted, for example. You are also 40% Extraverted. You are not only 77% ENFJ, you are 70% ENTP, 30% ESFJ, 56% INTP and so on. it only takes a little nudge in life experience to change you from ENFP to ENTP in this example.
But again, there's no legitimate science behind it - lots of reading on the subject out there and I think there are some modern alternatives that may be more legit
I'm glad it makes you happy.
I used to mull over these theories and instruments a lot about 20 years ago. Despite my somewhat sceptical attitude towards measuring and operationalizing these concepts, sometimes you meet people who seem like walking and talking textbook examples of the types or temperaments. Bloggers on Steem cannot help but expose their tendencies over time. I don't think I've ever met anyone who comes off as purely NF having a mixed bag of NFP and NFJ traits as @tarazkp, for example, who is IMHO a model community builder here. There are lots of NT types here. I would imagine Steemians to be heavily biased towards N at this stage.
I do not think we would get along well at all. We may debate, but then again I do not have a sufficiently tainted mind from higher learning to know how to that. (not to mention to old to really care anymore).
I have no respect for Freud at all. I barely know who Jung is, and Myers Briggs test is nothing more than a tool for mid level management to use to divide and conquer their workforce.
If as Freud suggest that Id, Ego, and Superego are a part and parcel of who we are, then what kind of a moron would suggest self immolation of killing Your Ego.
When people learn to be able to accept who they are, then and only then can they accept others for who they are.
But then again, like I said I have no debate skills, and no higher education. And not one person in the past 35 years of my seriously asking has ever convinced me that killing a part of yourself is good for you. It creates an imbalance after all you just murdered 1/3 of yourself if you "kill" your ego.
Democrat, liberal, republican, whig, leftist, right wing, or centerest, all Myers Briggs is used for is to pigeon hole and divide individuals, and to cause the individual to blame their actions, inactions, on a character trait, instead of manning up and taking responsibility for their action.
So no I do not think we would get along conversation wise. However that does not mean I do not respect you for what you have done and for what you are trying to do. We all have our own path to travel in life, and it is your choice which turns you will take, what decisions you will make. There is no Pill one can take to stay on the right path, the right path is the one you chose that causes the least amount of harm you your psyche. Your choice whether to become a member of the white coat boot lick society or not, no one can make that call or choice for you.
That is the biggest problem with the MBTI. It's a dumbed-down way to interpret Jung's ideas. Some of Jung's ideas seem insightful and interesting but they are hard to translate into measurable scales. In the hands of corporate managers, such tools are akin to powertools in the hands of four-year-olds. Linking Jung's ideas to other more down-to-earth concepts in psychology is not easy because Jung's language is somewhat vague, and he holds some questionable ideas such as "synchronicity". Yet, there is something powerful to them.