I found an article on vice (the link will be in the comments) by a Luke Winkie titled "The Meyers-Briggs Personality Test Is Bullshit." The article begins with explaining the basics of the Meyers-Briggs test and questions the credentials of Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. He goes on to give a brief and thorough rundown of how the the test (from now on referred to as the MBTI) has permeated our society and describes it as "a weirdly ubiquitous piece of pop psychology." He changes pace very quickly and tells a quote of Ronald Riggio, someone with a PhD in Psychology from the University of Californa. Riggio says the first time he saw the MBTI test through a student and assumed it was their work. That idea of the MBTI being sloppy shared with many in the professional psychological community. The primary complaint is the results of MBTI being too binary and failing to capture the full spectrum of colorful possibilities and stay in black and white.…show more content… I've joined (albeit not being active or invested in) a couple subreddits based on my MBTI results. Most of the posts and sentiments expressed in said groups are things I related to and agreed with. However this may just be an something called The Barnum Effect, meaning something is general enough it could be related to by most of the population. The argument that the MBTI isn't factual and isn't up to standard for most professionals was never something I questioned or even considered. Being presented with this side of the story has totally changed my view of the tests. Now I take the results with a grain of salt and only really view them to the same level as like a buzzfeed quiz. Despite all this I will still use the MBTI result as a factor on how I think of myself. My view of the MBTI tests now is that, while not up to professional standards, has some merit for myself and something I will continue to count as part of
