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MBTI personality test becomes popular

"Super accurate" or "pseudoscience"?

Constellation has always been the most popular topic among young people in social situations. Today, this position is threatened by MBTI, although there are many differences between the two.

How popular is it? The MBTI topic on Weibo has been read 800 million times, and many groups named after MBTI personality types have emerged on social platforms, as well as emoticons of various personality types.

Netizens made emoticons about MBTI

Korean TV stations also launched reality shows and film and television works with this theme. Even Gu Ailing revealed in an interview that she had taken the MBTI test , it turns out she is an INTJ.

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These four English letters are not a new "Internet slang", but the abbreviation of personality type. With its popularity, controversies such as "metaphysics" and "pseudoscience" have also followed.

What is MBTI?

MBTI stands for "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). It is a self-reported personality assessment tool used to measure and describe people's acquisition of The laws of psychological activities and the manifestations of different personality types in aspects such as information, decision-making, and treatment of life.

MBTI was developed by American writer Miles and her mother Briggs. Its theoretical basis is the psychological type theory created by Swiss psychologist Jung.

Netizens create MBTI emoticons

MBTI divides individual behavioral differences into four dimensions, including mental energy orientation, information acquisition methods, decision-making methods, and life attitude orientation.

Each dimension includes two directions, representing different preference tendencies, namely extroversion-introversion, sensing-intuition, and emotion. Feeling) - Thinking, Judging - Perceiving.

The different preferences of the four dimensions are combined to form 16 personality types. The results of the now popular MBTI Type 16 personality test are divided into four major categories, including Analyst, Diplomat, Guardian and Explorer.

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Different categories have certain similar personality traits. Gu Ailing’s INTJ is described as an “imaginative and strategic thinker.”

Why is MBTI so popular?

The first MBTI scale was published in 1942 and has been continuously revised and improved since then. In the 1980s, MBTI became popular. Until now, MBTI has once again set off a new craze on the Internet.

Why is MBTI so popular? It is generally believed that MBTI is easy to operate and easy to disseminate through its dichotomous classification method. At the same time, MBTI does not use the results of "questionnaire test" to draw conclusions about individuals. Instead, it leaves the decision-making power to the person undergoing the test, allowing everyone to find and determine their own personality type through the information they have given.

In the MBTI test results, in addition to displaying the personality type, each person's percentage on each option and the characteristics of the personality are also displayed. People can use this as a coordinate to understand and analyze their own personality performance.

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Despite the popularity of MBTI, the test has always faced controversy in the academic field. Some scholars believe that the reliability and validity of the test are not ideal.

Others believe that the test's description is vague and belongs to the "Barnum effect" - because the description is vague and general, so that it is applicable everywhere.

Today, many people believe that a few dozen questions cannot summarize a person, and a person's personality is not static. Moreover, MBTI often only describes the strengths of the character and is silent on the shortcomings.

However, it is probably precisely because of the relatively simple and gentle approach of MBTI that it became popular. Especially in the age of social media, people often use MBTI for self-expression, sharing and socializing.

Netizens summarize different personality expressions

Milvi Amre, associate professor of the Department of English at the University of Oxford and researcher at Worcester College, believes that even if it is not MBTI, there will be other things to fill this gap. Location.

"People are hungry for the kind of self-awareness it presents. It presents that knowledge in a non-trivial, easily digestible way. We have an incredible pull... You You can even name some celebrities or celebrities who are also ENTJ. This is a way to create meaning in a chaotic and complex world."

Is it reliable to use MBTI to recruit employees or targets?

Since the advent of MBTI, it has been often used for job recruitment and finding a partner. Emre explores the story behind the test in her book The Character Agent: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Origins of Character Training.

She said that in the 1940s, Myers and one of the first human management consultants in the United States began selling tests to large companies such as General Electric, Standard Oil, New York Life Insurance Company.

These companies use it to conduct CEO self-evaluations, interview job candidates, and evaluate whether they should charge higher life insurance premiums for certain personalities. Later, many job seekers used the test results as the main label to highlight their personal character, and used MBTI's analytical words to promote themselves. Some secret organizations also use the MBTI test when selecting agents.

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So, is it reliable for companies to use MBTI to screen employees, and for individuals to use MBTI to plan career development and find partners?

Many netizens are cautious about this. Some people believe that psychological measurement only provides reference for a certain section and is not diagnostic, not to mention that non-professionals’ understanding of many concepts is extremely biased. Some people also think that everyone on social platforms is just "having fun". Others say that this is just a way to understand themselves and is for reference only.

Some scholars have pointed out that MBTI results cannot be used as the final judgment of personality type. Instead, under the guidance of MBTI certified professionals, the questionnaire results must be used as a reference to determine an individual's personality type.

“MBTI can help you understand yourself, but it does not deprive you of cognitive freedom and impose conclusions on others; MBTI can effectively assess personality types, but it cannot infer behavioral attitudes, intelligence levels, and abilities. Strength and weakness, work performance, future blessings and destiny. ”

As for now, some people use MBTI as a new label, which may make things less interesting. People are dynamic beings. As the saying goes, "Thousands of people have thousands of faces, and hundreds of people have hundreds of natures." Taking personality tests is easy, but exploring within will never end.

What do you think?