Just wondering if anyone buys into it, or whether it should be taken seriously or not. I personally feel like I related to the description I got (infp) but then again I usually am easily convinced of things
Acadamic psychology disregards myers-briggs, since there's no real empiric evidence for it.
The theory of the test is based in jungean archetypes, so you could say it is a questionnaire which tells you which zodiac fits you best. After that the test has been tailored a bit by the needs and feedback from HR departments.
it's the same as star signs, you get a little blurb that doesn't say too much, and tells you things you just told it.
you get a little blurb that doesn’t say too much, and tells you things you just told it.
so literally not like star signs then?
star sign comparison was just cause they aren't scientific, but you're right you don't answer questions with star signs
Well, as an ENTP....
Jokes aside it’s astrology for people who think they’re too smart for astrology
Comparisons between myers briggs and astrology are for people who think they're too smart for the need to understand what quantitative data is
The only data in the MBTI is generated by feedback loops. Anything that gets used enough is going to create data. That doesn't mean there's any significance to it.
They didn't make the tool by sitting down with a long list of test results, they got together one afternoon with an idea about how to describe people and just started winging it until they got published.
Like, what even is the distinction between the intuitive/sensing axis and the judging/perceiving axis? (don't answer this, I've wasted enough of my life on this already)
Obviously the data is flawed to all fuck, but the comparison between it and astrology is stupid
Astrology has existed for longer and has more inertia behind it. That's the difference.
Listening to some dweeb talk about their mb archetype is fucking torture, and if you dare make any kind of remark alluding to that fact they'll gleefully tell you which harry potter sorting hat horseshit 4 letter brand you just exhibited.
When anyone brings up their nerd horoscope my respect for them drops through the floor
Unironically
When anyone brings up their horoscope of any kind my respect for them drops through the floor
Unironically
I think it's been pretty debunked that it's not a great personality test. I mean I have gotten vastly different answers based on how I feel at the moment. I feel the enneagram is a cooler personality test overall.
The astrology comparison is dumb as fuck because the Myers Briggs personality rating is based on quantitative data, even if the data is flawed. Many in the academic community (and wannabe nerds) dismiss it due to its lack of empirical basis and use of self-reported personal information, which admittedly is a problem for a number of reasons and especially so for academic purposes.
What they don't acknowledge however is that the data is useful for understanding someone's self-perception, which is still an important thing when assessing personality type. Yes, you might not be able to provide a completely objective or external analysis of a person, but for someone wanting to find out the personality type they perceive themselves to be at a certain point in time, and/or wanting some insight into how they might be responding to their current situation, it can still be useful.
I'm a very consistent INFP :-)
Edit: Speaking as someone in an academic career doing lab research, on a very general level people need to stop blindly fetishising science, its been consistently used to completely fuck indigenous and religious people.
I’m a very consistent INFP :-)
Edit: Speaking as someone in an academic career doing lab research, on a very general level people need to stop blindly fetishising science, its been consistently used to completely fuck indigenous and religious people.
Extremely on brand :)
It oversimplifies things into binaries and lumps things like Thinking and Feeling as opposites when people can be both.
Every time I take the test I either get INTP or INFP. So which one is it?
I treat it like a Facebook quiz. Entertaining but not accurate.
The biggest issue with the MBTI tests is that the categories aren't consistent with what they're supposed to mean. It's supposed to be a test of how you make decisions and interact with the world and process information. In reality, it just becomes crude stereotypes like "extravert = loud and social, introvert = loner" and "intuitive means smart and sensor means dumb jock" and "thinking = robot, feeling = cry baby or histrionic". If you're seriously into this shit, look for a Jungian function test. I like this one
http://jung.test.typologycentral.com/
TBF, probably 90% of the people on this website are ENFP/INFP, so your result is probably accurate.
nah the biggest issue is that a couple laypeople pulled it out of their ass and it has no basis in hard data or evidence of any sort.
