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insomniasexx  ·  3915 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Are We So Obsessed With the Myers-Briggs?

forwardslash has been interviewing for jobs at startups where they place a lot of emphasis on personality and fitting in with the culture. For that reason, the poor guy has taken a ton of personality tests over the last few weeks. He shared this with us on his weekly call and thenewgreen and I took one of the tests and compared notes. It indeed was a bonding experience - we laughed our asses off at what was "right" and "wrong".

It's a bit like astrology: it's vague enough to fit most people but specific enough to make you say "whoaa! That is totally me!!"

Here's mine

The more people around me that took it, the more I realized how vague it was. We scored differently by about 50 points on some of the traits but the little blurb was the same.

I think that these sorts of tests are nothing more than a stupidly fun way entertain yourself for 15 minutes. I would be very hesitant to hire someone on this test, knowing how wrong it was about some of my traits.