These results can be a jumping off point for individuals to think about their communication styles and to explore different ways of viewing the world.
The MBTI sorts each test-taker into one of sixteen tidy personality types, each made up of overwhelmingly positive personality traits. The test’s enduring popularity isn’t surprising.
And yet the MBTI continues to be widely used by companies and college career centers across the globe. This is a classic case of the popular press (belatedly) catching on to something that has been a virtual consensus among academic psychologists for a long time. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), one of the most well-known personality tests in America, has come under fire in the media recently because a significant body of evidence indicates that the test’s results are largely meaningless.
