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122: The Science of Myers Briggs Personality Tests

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Myers Briggs types are scientific evaluation of your personality… or at least that’s how they’re sold. Turns out that they might be barely more scientific than your horoscope.

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References & Further Reading
What is MBTI?
  1. https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
  2. https://www.mbtionline.com/en-US/Articles/2017/July/What-do-the-letters-in-the-Myers-Briggs-test-stand-for
  3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554596/
  4. https://www.16personalities.com/country-profiles/global/world

The Origins of MBTI
  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQqSnkI32A
  2. https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/isabel-briggs-myers.htm
  3. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06614-
  4. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung/Character-of-his-psychotherapy
  5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264783017_Isabel_Briggs_Myers_Psychological_Type_and_the_Spirit_of_CG_Jung

Is the MBTI Test Scientific & Useful?
  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQiYiXxmjg
  2. https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/carl-jung/
  3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26851600/
  4. https://www.livescience.com/amp/65513-does-myers-briggs-personality-test-work.html
  5. https://jobtalk.indiana.edu/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/develop/mbti.pdf
  6. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/00346543063004467
  7. vox.com/platform/amp/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless
  8. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014920639602200103
  9. https://amp.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific
  10. https://pages.uoregon.edu/sanjay/bigfive.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

What are we starting with this week?

0:02.0

I'm sorry, update.

0:03.0

You got it right, Jam.

0:05.0

Thank you, yeah.

0:06.0

Part of getting it right is saying it as terribly as possible.

0:14.0

Oh, I'm going to remember that for the rest of this episode.

0:17.0

Almost unintelligible, almost unintelligible, but not quite.

0:20.0

I don't know that update. Yeah, perfect.

0:21.6

So, had a look at our Spotify and turns out we've got 16,978 followers.

0:27.6

Wow!

0:28.6

Guys!

0:29.6

Yeah, that's cool.

0:30.6

22 off.

0:31.6

It's cool.

0:32.6

It's not close enough though, is it?

0:33.6

It's not close enough to that sweet 17K.

0:35.6

No.

0:36.6

No, that's... You're all grounded.

0:38.3

You know, that's where everything happens.

0:39.3

So I think we should hit 17K by the next time.

0:41.3

Maybe even 17,500.

0:42.3

500?

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