{"id":31899,"date":"2012-12-24T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/myers-briggs-astrology-in-a-business-suit.html"},"modified":"2012-12-24T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:05:23","slug":"myers-briggs-astrology-in-a-business-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/myers-briggs-astrology-in-a-business-suit.html","title":{"rendered":"Myers-Briggs — Astrology in a Business Suit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like any other personality inventory (and perhaps more than some), the MTBI is, at best, possibly useful for some general discussion points. \u00a0My own scores have tended to be fairly consistent, but I don't lend the test a tremendous amount of weight. \u00a0Knowing 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).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0always say that about me, and I've started noticing it about myself," and otherwise support a bullshit answer.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Paula Jones<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Allen Varney<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

"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):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/shkspr.mobi\/blog\/2012\/12\/astrology-for-businesses\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA 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……\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Like any other personality inventory (and perhaps more than some), the MTBI is, at best, possibly useful for some general discussion points. \u00a0My own scores have tended to be fairly consistent, but I don't lend the test a tremendous amount of weight. \u00a0Knowing you're a strong I (vs an E), or a group is more … Continue reading “Myers-Briggs — Astrology in a Business Suit?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14413,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/tweets-on-2009-04-02-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":31899,"position":0},"title":"Tweets on 2009-04-02","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Apr-09 12:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ah, yes -- once again it's time to do a work team personality type test -- MTBI this time again. 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