There is a free online version of the Myers-Briggs personality test that does not require an email address and even gives percentages at humanmetrics.com. Not saying this is scientific but I’ve used it to test predictions in the past and that has worked. That I’ve compared two different maps to a territory and gotten the same result with each seems like evidence they’re detecting patterns of some kind and that’s enough to make me think that the humanmetrics test was not completely botched.
The Myers-Briggs is criticized for being imperfect due to people sometimes transcending a personality type dichotomy, though, from my view, developing multiple aspects of yourself is a sign that one has made progress in developing as a person. I don’t see it as meaning that the test is flawed but that the idea that personality should never change is an incorrect assumption and that the Myers-Briggs therefore MIGHT have the unintended consequence of also being able to detect people who have reached an advanced level of personal development. Because I am curious about this, and because it will give us some data about the test itself, I am proposing these questions:
Have you gotten a score near the border between any of the letters? If so, which pairs?
Have you gotten a different result when taking the test multiple times? If so, which pairs were different?
Note: There can be more than one pair that switches! (This is rare, but I’ve seen it happen to a few people, including me.)
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There is a free online version of the Myers-Briggs personality test that does not require an email address and even gives percentages at humanmetrics.com. Not saying this is scientific but I’ve used it to test predictions in the past and that has worked. That I’ve compared two different maps to a territory and gotten the same result with each seems like evidence they’re detecting patterns of some kind and that’s enough to make me think that the humanmetrics test was not completely botched.
I have posted a detailed prediction of LessWrong’s Myers-Briggs results.
The Myers-Briggs is criticized for being imperfect due to people sometimes transcending a personality type dichotomy, though, from my view, developing multiple aspects of yourself is a sign that one has made progress in developing as a person. I don’t see it as meaning that the test is flawed but that the idea that personality should never change is an incorrect assumption and that the Myers-Briggs therefore MIGHT have the unintended consequence of also being able to detect people who have reached an advanced level of personal development. Because I am curious about this, and because it will give us some data about the test itself, I am proposing these questions:
Have you gotten a score near the border between any of the letters? If so, which pairs?
Have you gotten a different result when taking the test multiple times? If so, which pairs were different?
Note: There can be more than one pair that switches! (This is rare, but I’ve seen it happen to a few people, including me.)
BTW, what’s the relationship between Myers-Briggs and the Big Five? Does the former map to a 4D subspace of the latter?
See this comment. (Correlation coefficients are tabulated in the paper.)