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.
Lesson by Merve Emre, directed by Seoro Oh.