Like any other personality inventory (and perhaps more than some), the MTBI is, at best, possibly useful for some general discussion points. My own scores have tended to be fairly consistent, but I don't lend the test a tremendous amount of weight. Knowing you're a strong I (vs an E), or a group is more F than J doesn't work any magic, but it can be helpful (to the extent that it's true).
Still, there is a certain amount of zodiacal vagueness about the MTBI, and iIt would be interesting to experiment with it and see if, provided with results that are completely different from how they actually test, people would also nod sagely, say, "Yeah, folks always say that about me, and I've started noticing it about myself," and otherwise support a bullshit answer.
(h/t +Paula Jones)
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"Today, Myers-Briggs tests are taken by millions of people every year. This nets the private company which owns Myers-Briggs around $20 million per year. Oh, yes, this isn't a scientific test in any sense. It is a programme specifically designed to make money. If you want to take the test, you need to pay. If you want to administer the test, you need to pay.
"Whenever scientists have attempted to study it, the results have been overwhelmingly negative.[…] Myers-Briggs is, to put it mildly, bullshit." (Terence Eden):
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A few years ago, my work sent me on a training course. It involved the usual things, trust exercises, team bonding, and personality profiles. I filled in a few forms, answered some questions, and t……
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I want to share this item without losing Dave Hill's appended comments – one of the few things Facebook seems to do better than G+. Or maybe I have just not learned the trick yet.
I listened to How Myers-Brigg Conquered The Office (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rmst0) a while back and although it was something of a fluff piece it was an honest enough appraisal and history of it. I don't know if it's going to be repeated any time soon but I'm sure it could be found somewhere.
+George Wiman, G+ is good at sharing/perpetuating the comments of the initial poster of something, not reposters. Sometimes that's good, other times, not so much.
"Cut and paste" can be your friend.