Atleast on hacker news, the test is fairly consistent. There have been several surveys here.
> lack of statistical analyzability
That is the academic psychologist's problem.
> 89 / 100 fortune 100 companies use it internally
A lot of people hear recommend blindly investing in s&p 500. I trust fortune 100 companies more than psychology associations and bloggers.
> college board chose not to use it
Yes. Because it is one static test that can be memorized to produce desired result by test taker. But if one takes it for their own understanding, there is no reason to cheat (and it becomes useful)
Not convinced that these two blog posts and 1 white paper opinion piece count as discrediting mbti.
I will look for a meta review.
In the end, I think personality testing, similar to iq testing is not politically correct. But it can be useful, as a self test atleast.
Companies prefer to use it but keep the process non transparent. They like the flexibility of being able to say "personality fit" without the transparency of a test because one it doesn't open up liability and two the test is gameable in an adversarial situation.
Atleast I haven't seen any claims of racial differences in mbti, which might make it useful as a way to find engineer / rational types in underrepresented groups in software.
> inconsistency of results
Atleast on hacker news, the test is fairly consistent. There have been several surveys here.
> lack of statistical analyzability
That is the academic psychologist's problem.
> 89 / 100 fortune 100 companies use it internally
A lot of people hear recommend blindly investing in s&p 500. I trust fortune 100 companies more than psychology associations and bloggers.
> college board chose not to use it
Yes. Because it is one static test that can be memorized to produce desired result by test taker. But if one takes it for their own understanding, there is no reason to cheat (and it becomes useful)
Not convinced that these two blog posts and 1 white paper opinion piece count as discrediting mbti. I will look for a meta review.
In the end, I think personality testing, similar to iq testing is not politically correct. But it can be useful, as a self test atleast.
Companies prefer to use it but keep the process non transparent. They like the flexibility of being able to say "personality fit" without the transparency of a test because one it doesn't open up liability and two the test is gameable in an adversarial situation.
Atleast I haven't seen any claims of racial differences in mbti, which might make it useful as a way to find engineer / rational types in underrepresented groups in software.