For my Meyer Briggs test I was crowned the INFP-T personality type. I guess I agreed with the results. I am somewhat of a mediator, I am shy around people I am not very familiar with. But I am also argumentative sometimes, I really fail at hiding my feelings and when I believe something I say it. And if I’m in a good mood or I’m feeling some energy I love talking to all sorts of people and I don’t hide my true self and sometimes that means I make bad first impressions (all the time)
My “personality type” said I enjoy being my own boss which is only half true, sure that’d be pretty cool and I would enjoy it but ultimately I need stability of someone being in charge of me.
I absolutely despise personality tests. I found this whole assignment quite a drag and I was mostly annoyed with other people around me. I view personality tests and things like that as an outlet for someone who doesn’t quite know who they are to listen to a computer test and then tell everyone for attention. That is a bit harsh I will admit but I just wanted to say that. It was especially trying when we looked up careers based on our personality. My friends kept saying oh this is the career I got? What the heck!? Oh yeah at least yours is cool I’m a jeweler.
And obviously my friends know it’s not saying yup this is what you have to do but it was just draining having to listen to everyone trying to one up each other with our results and I’m a hypocrite because I was doing it to! And I couldn’t stop myself so I made an executive decision to put in my headphones and block everything out.
I think personality tests are a fun pastime but not something that should be used as an actual source of strengths and weaknesses, and after reading that real big name companies use the Myer Briggs test as a “tool” for employing I was appalled. This truly just demonstrates (in my opinion) how these companies don’t actually care about the research behind said test, the Myer Briggs test was popular what better way to make your company seem with the times and progressive than using a personality test that is so revolutionary
But in reality it isn’t. It is a theory, and it is a very interesting theory just like all of the other theories like Eysenck’s, Cattell’s, or Allport’s. Often forgotten that these are just theories. And a quick google search can disprove the Myer Briggs test fairly quickly.
https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die
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