In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

Re:In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) by rcakebread on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:06AM (#26290836)

I read the book "What's Your Type?: The Story of the Myers-Briggs, and How Personality Testing Took Over the World" and learned it was a bit like Scientology a few decades ago.

Very secretive, offered a free personality test to lure you into lots of paid courses. They were selling courses to an astonishing percentage of large corporations.

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Re:In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) by ncmncm on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:30AM (#26293617)

There is no Church of Myers--Briggs, and no secrets. Everything is open.

There are charlatans in any field, and they will use anything. They all use money, but using money does not make you a charlatan. That corporate HR departments hire charlatans only demonstrates that HR departments will hire anybody willing to give the HR director a kickback.

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Re:In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) by ConnorLeet on Sunday February 28, 2021 @05:10AM (#26292189)

I’ve always been amazed by how much of the self-development & improvement industry seems to be based off of Scientology!

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