In 1962, Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabell Briggs introduced the MBTI to the world. The MBTI stands for the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and it is a simple test that determines your personality type out of 16 different types. Since it was invented, the MBTI was used by 50 million people and is still widely used today. But the MBTI is only one of the millions of personality test programs, which is one of the million-dollar industries used by individuals, schools, and companies. But these famous programs may prove wrong on several occasions. I believe that personality tests are inaccurate, and here is why.
The questions are not appropriate to find out one’s personality. Humans are very judgmental creatures, and so we frown upon those that do not fit into our personal thoughts of a good person or personality. So, people often lie to try to fit into the frame of others' thoughts, such as lying about their beliefs, ideas, and emotions. By that, people can be welcomed by others far more when they tell the truth. But some questions of personality tests force a person to choose an answer that fits into the frame, and as this repeats, the person would end up saying what only fits into the frame, and the program, which got a wrong answer, would end up with a wrong conclusion. Therefore, this was my reason. I suggest that you would take the conclusions of personality tests as a simple joke and never take it seriously, ever. I will end my first blog with a quote from Katherine Cook Briggs.
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.
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