TED-Ed

Do personality tests work? - Merve Emre

2020 • E144    Dec 22, 2020    5m
n 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that classified people’s personalities into 16 types. Called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, it would go on to become one of the world’s most widely-used personality tests. But do these tests actually reveal truths about personality? Merve Emre examines their design flaws.

Lesson by Merve Emre, directed by Seoro Oh.

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