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Maintenance Phase · September 12, 2024 · 62m
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
Myers-Briggs: the personality test used by 88% of Fortune 500 companies that has zero predictive validity. How a mother-daughter team with no psychology training created one of the most profitable assessment tools in history.
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Hobbes argues that personality test appeal reveals a fundamental human desire to be 'known' — to have the true self identified and validated by an external authority, even when that authority has no scientific basis.
Highlights
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Myers-Briggs as astrology for corporations — unfalsifiable self-categorization
Hobbes documents that Myers-Briggs has test-retest reliability of only 50% (meaning half of people get a different type when retested), no predictive validity for job performance, and was created by people with no psychological training.Was this useful?