Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless
by brightball on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:04AM
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Mine told me I had the same personality type as Optimus Prime and nobody's taking that away from me.
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Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless
by mcphage on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:58AM
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That's why it's stuck around so long—it tells EVERYONE that they have the same personality type as Optimus Prime, so nobody wants to dump it.
Re:Why the Myers-Briggs test is meaningless
by brightball on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:11AM
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Not everybody, just your ENFJ types. :-)
Honestly, I was at a company who got everybody to do the personality tests and then had a marriage counselor sit down with every team to discuss the results. The goal was to help people try to relate to each other more effectively.
It was honestly a decent exercise. I learned that I was one of 3 extroverted programmers at the company (of 150 devs). I don't know that it had much of a lasting impact, but it was solid effort on the part of that company.
The only reason I know the Optimus Prime thing is that they asked us to find a famous figure with a matching personality type to include on our team's internal wiki page.