Whats your type The boom of personality tests
what’s your type
are you an entj or isfp
even if you haven’t taken the mbti test
yet you’ve probably at least
heard of these acronyms the mbti test or
myers-briggs type indicator test
is one of today’s most prevalent
personality tests
recently i conducted a survey on
people’s perceptions on
mbti all 97 of 97 people
replied that they had taken an online
personality test at least once
and a shocking 92 percent replied
that the mbti that their mbti results
match
how they think of themselves in our
school library
we literally recommend people to read
books based on their mbti type
yep koreans sure are mbti maniacs
well for those of you who haven’t taken
the test yet
let me give you a short explanation on
how this test works
mbti test has four letters and
each of the four letters represent a
trait about themselves
first extroversion versus introversion
represents how you gain your energy
second sensing versus intuition is about
how you gather information
third thinking and feeling is about how
you make your decisions
and finally judging versus perceiving is
about
how you live your life today the test is
translated into more than 16 languages
and the company reportedly earns about
20 million dollars from
the 2 million people that take it only
certified professionals
are allowed to administer and take and
allow people to take the mbti tests
so the tests that you see here the ones
they take online
aren’t real they’re just a close replica
and a lot of people agree that the
spread of covet 19 has
accelerated the trend of mbti of
personality tests
63 replied that they take the test
mostly for fun
after all i myself took millions of
personality tests
while i was on quarantine another
interesting thing
is that these tests come with a share
your result button
and this in fact has the effect of a
social nudge
by sharing the results other friends who
see
the results start thinking oh maybe i
should take it too
that looks fun and so more and more
people
take it however the mbti
test has long been the subject of
criticism
first of all the people who make the
test catherine briggs and isabelle myers
weren’t psychologists so they didn’t use
many scientific
theories to back up the mbti theory
so many professionals regard the mbti
test
as unreliable also many studies have
criticized the dichotomy of the test
take people as rocks in the river you
can take
hundreds of rocks from a river and
analyze them into different categories
size shape etc but
you can’t say that there is a rock
that’s exactly the same
as the average rock this is exactly what
carl jung
the psychologist who backed up the mbti
test
says in his book the undiscovered self
people’s traits are normally distributed
in a bell-shaped function
so they are mostly centered near the
middle however
so however the mbti test
separates people into two different
categories so
they believe the personality cannot be
expressed in just
four letters this isn’t exactly true
though
although they do give you a result in
four letters they also give you a
percentage of each trait
as you can see here and even if you said
that the test
wasn’t reliable i would still say it’s
worth taking
why would i say that well first
you can better understand the people
around you
there used to be a kid at school that i
really hated
i couldn’t understand every single thing
she did
however after a serious talk about mbti
i realized that the other person wasn’t
trying to drive me crazy on purpose
they just perceive the world in a
different way than i do
second it’s a source of entertainment
and communication
as of itself all of my people in the
survey
responded that they had seen media
related to mbti
at least once mostly through youtube and
online communities such as twitter or
reddit and you’ve probably seen these
kind of mbti memes
and these are really popular these days
yep and third it can also help you
better understand other people and
yourself
i believe this is really important you
can better understand what your
preferences
are you can and in this way
you can understand that you aren’t
always perfect but it’s okay
and it’s fine to be flawed and in this
way you can gain
self-esteem well i personally find these
personality tests really intriguing
i hope that through personality tests
people could have a framework to better
understand themselves
and their surroundings thank you for
listening