Socially its better than eugenics and Japanese blood type horoscopy?
Lets pretend for a minute that "better than eugenics" means anything.
But I've had a long history of hating MBTI...Even back in 4th grade I could never take the same test twice and get the same answers...I will admit the questions help me to think about myself? But so do fortune cookies, horoscopes and episode 13 of outlaw star?
Using traits to catagorize people into niches, oftentimes using traits they can never change. The basis for my hatred of horoscopes, blood-type personality labelling, etc...
...I meant to say that at least with MBTI its not about what your born with (or when your born). Its just as useless if your a real person.
THAT BEING SAID? I actually enjoy using it for (more shallow) characters on occasion. And by "on occasion" I mean "Tilly was the 3rd time I've ever done it".
Post by Luto Esperanza on Sept 14, 2014 12:56:11 GMT -5
Socially its better than eugenics and Japanese blood type horoscopy?
Lets pretend for a minute that "better than eugenics" means anything.
But I've had a long history of hating MBTI...Even back in 4th grade I could never take the same test twice and get the same answers...I will admit the questions help me to think about myself? But so do fortune cookies, horoscopes and episode 13 of outlaw star?
The best way to use the MBTI Test is to type yourself after looking into how it works and organizing your functions accordingly. It's not just E/I, N/S, T/F, and P/J, every type has an organization of functions. For example, I'm an ENTP which means that my dominant function is Extroverted Intuition (Ne), my auxiliary function is Introverted Thinking (Ti), my tertiary function is Extroverted Feeling (Fe), and my inferior function is Introverted Sensing (Si). This function stack tells me what my priorities are when analyzing information and making decisions, and after learning how they work I can accurately say that the tests typed me correctly.
I'm not saying you're wrong, Luto. I'm just saying that if that's true, that test goes against everything my friend in doctoral clin psych has told me over the years: that knowing anything about how any test works before taking it immediately invalidates it.
Post by Shun Minamoto on Sept 14, 2014 13:02:30 GMT -5
It absolutely does. Knowing anything about a psychological test before taking it completely destroys the reliability and objectivity of the results.
That said, if you're using the MBTI as a personal tool and not an objective test then knowledge can only make your wielding of the tool more effective.
Post by Luto Esperanza on Sept 14, 2014 13:12:22 GMT -5
I'm not saying that I'm right either, I'm basically trying to say what Tova has been saying. Also, what I was saying to Kits was just because he was talking about taking the tests and getting different results when it's best to analyze yourself. I'm aware that MBTI is based off of a psychologist's theories based on no scientific studies and the test itself was made by statisticians because they wanted to make a test, but that being said I can see it's effectiveness as long as people don't fall into the stereotype of their type like I see people on various MBTI outlets do.