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Do personality tests work?

Merve Emre · TED

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About

In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katharine 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. [Directed by Seoro Oh, narrated by Bethany Cutmore-Scott, music by Jellysound].

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Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Merve Emre
Year
2020
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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