Most psychologists have long since abandoned Myers-Briggs, if they ever gave it any credence at all, Stromberg continues. Instead, he says, Myers-Briggs lives on as a revenue generator for CPP, the company that owns the rights to the test. Stromberg explains why people are willing to pay such a steep fee to get the official Myers-Briggs imprimatur:.
Even the US government, including the state department and the Central Intelligence Agency, uses Myers-Briggs - a waste of taxpayer money, Stromberg says. Facebook Twitter Email. Here's why people still take the Myers-Briggs test — even though it might not mean anything.
Show Caption. Hide Caption. I think these women were convinced that the work they were doing as wives and mothers had taught them something, not just about personality, but about how to manage the different kinds of personalities that jostle for your time and attention on any given day.
What is that but management work? Knowledge Wharton: Do you think that we will continue to see a general desire to give tests like Myers-Briggs and others? Emre: I do. I think we are hungry for the kind of self-knowledge that it presents.
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Many people say they didn't really understand Jung at all. As Malcom Gladwell writes in the New Yorker :. Jung didn't believe that types were easily identifiable, and he didn't believe that people could be permanently slotted into one category or another. The Myers-Briggs MBTI has become so entrenched, in part, because people who invest themselves in something are typically loathe to give it up. MBTI training sessions cost a couple grand to go through , and once you believe in something like the personality types, your cognitive biases are going to do everything they can to hold onto it.
Cambridge University professor Brian Little says another main reason for the test's ongoing success is that it's been "marketed brilliantly. The merits are there: Little says that the test gives people the chance to discuss their preferences and personality in the workplace — a conversation that otherwise gets crowded out. This makes people available to insight into themselves.
When taking a personality test or looking into a horoscope , you get the feeling of a-ha! Yes, I am an introvert, so please don't bother me. And that's satisfying. As well, the test is decidedly positive. Unlike other psych measurements, the Myers-Briggs doesn't separate people into adaptive or maladaptive, functioning or dysfunctional, stable or neurotic.
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