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humanodon  ·  3842 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Are We So Obsessed With the Myers-Briggs?

    The other thing I don't like about tests like this is they tend to make people perceive their tendencies as unchangeable facts, which then reinforces those tendencies.

That's pretty close to the conclusion I've arrived at. One career center guy at my college had me take one of those and it came up ENTP/INTP. A career center lady at my original university had me take one too and it came up ESTP/ISTP. Neither of them knew me from anything more than our few brief meetings and each one decided that I was one or the other. Furthermore, neither considered that I might only be that designation when interacting with them.

Consider this: friendships are shaped by the perceptions of both parties about the other and the friendship as a whole. That perception informs interactions. The way in which we are friends with a particular person is not the same way in which we are friends with another person. While we might generally act and react in certain ways, context is everything.