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Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless by giraffe_lady on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:56AM (#35340208)
From my understanding of it and having to take it a couple times at different jobs, it seems like a reasonably coherent categorization system for certain aspects of personality.

Where it falls apart is making predictions about how individuals will react to a certain situation or how people will interact with each other. In that I've never seen it do better than just what a socially competent person would accomplish by going with their judgement and intuition, and often worse.

Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless by codersfocus on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:22AM (#35340620)
http://www.socionics.com/rel/rel.htm

This is a link that describes how people will relate with each other, and I’ve found it to be accurate. Note the type encoding system is slightly different from MBTI, for introverts the last letter has to be flipped.

I want to point out that MBTI is basically a brochure version of an underlying theory. The value comes from understanding the individual cognitive functions themselves. Once you understand that, you can know the _process_ someone uses to think and make decisions. That gives you a better idea of why they think the way they do, especially if their cfs are different / confusing to you. It’s like being able to boot up someone else’s mental… OS in a VM (taxing and slow, but if you really want to run something, necessary.)

Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless by klodolph on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:07AM (#35340382)
I think it’s not actually testing personality, but some kind of way that people choose to present themselves. The difference is that personality is supposed to be more stable over time and across different circumstances.