Rationally Speaking #78 - Intelligence and Personality Testing

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What's your IQ? Are you an ENTJ, or maybe an ISFP? What's your Openness score, your Conscientiousness score, your Neuroticism score? And just how seriously should you take all those test scores, anyway? In this episode of Rationally Speaking, Massimo and Julia discuss the science -- and lack thereof -- of intelligence and personality testing.

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0:00.0	Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education.
0:22.6	For more information, please visit us at NYCCEPtics.org.
0:35.6	Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
0:40.9	I am your host, Massimo Pilluci, and with me as always is my co-host, Julia Galev.
0:45.5	Julia, what are we going to talk about today?
0:48.1	Well, Massimo, today we're going to turn a rational eye on the world of standardized testing.
0:54.1	In particular, we're going to look at the intelligence quotient test, the IQ test,
0:59.5	and Myers-Briggs and other sort of personality-type testing.
1:04.2	Ooh.
1:05.1	Okay.
1:05.5	This is that a big controversial.
1:06.4	Have you taken the Myers-Briggs test?
1:08.3	Do you know what your personality type is?
1:09.8	You know what?
1:10.5	At some point or another, I had taken both the Myers-Briggs and the Big Five test, but I have
1:17.2	no recollection whatsoever one personality type.
1:21.4	I could probably typecast you.
1:23.0	I could probably assign you to their categories.
1:25.3	Yeah, but that is the, that is exactly the problem, right?
1:27.7	That is, you know, how reliable would that casting be?
1:30.7	Have you taken either one of these tests?
1:33.2	I took the Myers-Briggs test a couple times, once in high school and then once I think in college or shortly after.
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