Re:Ask HN: Is IQ test a thing during hiring in your country ...
by dragonwriter on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:07PM
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> Myers-Briggs is just a toolkit
Myers-Briggs is just unsubstantiated nonsense made to sell scam products and services to the gullible, that has been marketed so effectively that people believe that it is meaningful because they’ve heard the name so much. (In the way repetition detached from origin have driven its popular perception, it’s like “Stockholm Syndrome” that way, or the popular misportrayal of the Dunning-Kruger effect, though neither of those are ongoing commercial scams.)
(A couple of its axes have weak correlations with axes of empirically-grounded personality models, by sheer luck, and so it can have some weak utility that way, but even there you could use a valid tool based on an empirically-grounded model for better results.)
Myers-Briggs is just unsubstantiated nonsense made to sell scam products and services to the gullible, that has been marketed so effectively that people believe that it is meaningful because they’ve heard the name so much. (In the way repetition detached from origin have driven its popular perception, it’s like “Stockholm Syndrome” that way, or the popular misportrayal of the Dunning-Kruger effect, though neither of those are ongoing commercial scams.)
(A couple of its axes have weak correlations with axes of empirically-grounded personality models, by sheer luck, and so it can have some weak utility that way, but even there you could use a valid tool based on an empirically-grounded model for better results.)