How Personality Tests Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For millennia, we have tried to put human personalities into neat types, an effort psychology took up early in its history in an effort to legitimize itself. But is the idea of types – which all personality inventories are based on - flawed to begin with?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:45.8	There's Jerry over there.
0:47.9	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:49.9	Yeah, a couple of ITJSs.
0:54.9	I don't remember what I am.
0:57.8	We've taken it before.
0:59.6	How Stuff Works hosted it years back.
1:02.2	Do you remember?
1:03.2	Yeah, we had like many companies do.
1:05.1	As you'll see, we had when we were under Discovery's tender wing, they paid for someone to
1:11.4	come to our office and administer the Myers-Briggs personality test.
1:16.6	At gunpoint.
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