Take a simple test and find out which of nine possible personality types you are.

This will give you your anyagram number and that number will tell you everything about yourself

that's important enough to know leading to success in life, business, relationships

and everything else. It's almost like astrological magic. But is the

inigram science? But we're going to find out right now on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the conspiratoriality of Enigrams.

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Today we're going to open a drawer in our cabinet of new age psychometric modalities, as one does,

and flip to the folder for Eniagrams.

For years, this has been growing in popularity as a way to understand our own personalities

and the personalities of those around us and how we might interact.

Some would argue that it's like a blending of Myers-Briggs,

numerology, and horoscopes.

Others would claim that it has solid science behind it.

What is the truth of anyagrams?

Do we each have an anyagram number that tells us useful things about ourselves?

Or can it be dismissed as glorified numerology.

In fact, the word eniagram breaks down into the Greek roots for 9 and figure,

as in a figure representing the number 9.

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