The dark side of seeing your personality as a fixed type
, Dr. Merve Emre explains that personality testing has become a $2 billion industry, with the Myers-Briggs test being the most popular of all.
Interestingly, neither Katharine Briggs nor her daughter, Isabel Myers, had any training in psychology,, or testing. Neither worked in a laboratory or academic institution. Since access to universities for women was limited, the two developed their system from home. Katherine Briggs used personal experience to develop her theories in the early 1900s, seeing differences between herself and her spouse, as well as her two children. According to Briggs, a person can put themselves through a lot of psychological pain by trying to solve incompatibilities.
In social science, there are four standards through which a test is rated: Are the categories reliable, valid, independent, and comprehensive? If the answer is"no," then the test or measure should not be taken seriously. The term"reliability" in psychological research refers to the consistency of a research study or measuring test. For instance, if a person weighs themselves throughout the course of a day, they would expect to see a similar reading. Scales that measured weight differently each time would be of little use. And that's the very challenge with most personality measures, particularly type-based tests like Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, and others that overly categorize people.
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