# Do personality tests work?

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/merve_emre_do_personality_tests_work)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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. \[Directed by Seoro Oh, narrated by Bethany Cutmore-Scott, music by Jellysound\].

## Lectures

1. [Do personality tests work?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/merve_emre_do_personality_tests_work/6094f99ea3b4), 5 min (TED's player)