Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Combining these four scales comes up with 16 different personality types: INTP, ESTJ, etc. The scales, except for the last, are nominally based on [[Carl Jung]]'s theory of personality (the last was somewhat arbitrarily added by Myers and Briggs).
 
Combining these four scales comes up with 16 different personality types: INTP, ESTJ, etc. The scales, except for the last, are nominally based on [[Carl Jung]]'s theory of personality (the last was somewhat arbitrarily added by Myers and Briggs).
  
Many skeptics consider the Myers-Briggs to be [[pseudoscience]], since no scientific proof has been offered for the existence of these categories, although many find it useful as a wholly subjective frame of reference or categorization. Then again, there are also those who find the categorizations in [[Transactional Analysis]], [[William Strauss and Neil Howe]]'s generational types, the left-right [[political spectrum]], dividing popular culture by decade (the "Sixties", the "Seventies", etc.) useful methods of systemizing too, despite their lack of scientific nature.  As with any subjective construct, your mileage may vary.
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Many skeptics consider the Myers-Briggs to be [[pseudoscience]], since no scientific proof has been offered for the existence of these categories, although many find it useful as a wholly subjective frame of reference or categorization. Then again, there are also those who find the categorizations in [[Transactional Analysis]], [[William Strauss and Neil Howe]]'s generational types, the left-right [[political spectrum]], dividing popular culture by decade (the "Sixties", the "Seventies", etc.) useful methods of systematizing too, despite their lack of scientific nature.  As with any subjective construct, your mileage may vary.
  
Though the MBTI is popular in schools and businesses, it's generally disfavoured in the psychological community for its low reliability and external validity. The current dominant model in the field of scientific personality research is the much more psychometrically sound Five Factor Model (FFM).
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Though the MBTI is popular in schools and businesses, it's generally disfavored in the psychological community for its low reliability and external validity. The current dominant model in the field of scientific personality research is the much more psychometrically sound Five Factor Model (FFM).
  
 
All of the scales are at the bottom of the webpage of [http://www.introversion.co.uk Introversion Software].
 
All of the scales are at the bottom of the webpage of [http://www.introversion.co.uk Introversion Software].

Revision as of 23:45, 27 April 2009

The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) is an alleged assesment of one's personality type, which categorizes people based on four different scales:

  • Extraversion - Introversion
  • Sensing - iNtuition
  • Thinking - Feeling
  • Judging - Perceiving

Combining these four scales comes up with 16 different personality types: INTP, ESTJ, etc. The scales, except for the last, are nominally based on Carl Jung's theory of personality (the last was somewhat arbitrarily added by Myers and Briggs).

Many skeptics consider the Myers-Briggs to be pseudoscience, since no scientific proof has been offered for the existence of these categories, although many find it useful as a wholly subjective frame of reference or categorization. Then again, there are also those who find the categorizations in Transactional Analysis, William Strauss and Neil Howe's generational types, the left-right political spectrum, dividing popular culture by decade (the "Sixties", the "Seventies", etc.) useful methods of systematizing too, despite their lack of scientific nature. As with any subjective construct, your mileage may vary.

Though the MBTI is popular in schools and businesses, it's generally disfavored in the psychological community for its low reliability and external validity. The current dominant model in the field of scientific personality research is the much more psychometrically sound Five Factor Model (FFM).

All of the scales are at the bottom of the webpage of Introversion Software.

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