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21 Feb 2011, 7:08 am

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The Myers Briggs is IMHO at least not well done and repeating a test can land you in the opposite category. For more info see here: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4221


Of course it can. It is perfectly possible to answer the questions in a way that doesn't reflect the truth at all.


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21 Feb 2011, 8:27 am

See that's the problem -- if you point out flaws in the test, someone will always come along and blame the people taking the test. Which is probably one reason the skeptic community distrusts it.


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21 Feb 2011, 8:42 am

The only problem I see is in using the MBTI as some kind of scientific measurement tool, because it isn't that. As a device to raise or indicate some subjective 'truths', it's fine.


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21 Feb 2011, 12:01 pm

I could go on and on about scientific facts and fallacies, the merits and disadvantages, the test's strengths and weaknesses.

But it's not necessary. After you take the test (it should be composed of hundreds of questions, not dozens), then read the description of the personality type it says you are. If it sounds like you, then the test worked really well.

I am an ENFP. If you wanted to know what I am like in real life, then go read the ENFP description. That description is the most accurate and concise description of me that I have ever found, and is much better than I could have ever written about myself.

So the test worked better than anything I've ever seen. But go read your own description. It's very easy to see if the test is "sound" for you.

A test could have a 90% "unsound" fail rate, but if you can tell 100% of the time when the test fails, then it's a 100% useful test 10% of the time.



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21 Feb 2011, 5:23 pm

temetvince wrote:
After you take the test (it should be composed of hundreds of questions, not dozens), then read the description of the personality type it says you are. If it sounds like you, then the test worked really well.

So horoscopes are great tests?



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21 Feb 2011, 5:49 pm

Bluefins wrote:
temetvince wrote:
After you take the test (it should be composed of hundreds of questions, not dozens), then read the description of the personality type it says you are. If it sounds like you, then the test worked really well.

So horoscopes are great tests?


If you took a horoscope test, and it gave a description that matched you really well, then that test worked for you. I don't see what the issue is here.