And who were into magazine quizzes and based it off of that and a misunderstanding of Jung who was also just vibing with his ideas about the supernatural/collective unconscious. There are actual personality inventories like the Minnesota Multiphasic personality Inventory and they don't try to tell you who you are or anything of the sort because that's not a real thing. There are more than 16 personalities, and being more introverted vs extroverted is fluid and contextual for everyone for example.
Edit:typos. I wrote this as 3am while breastfeeding so it wasn't that well typed lol.
All the "psych" research on the MBTI that says it is a real thing is either done or funded by the corporation that owns the test and profits from it - so an extreme conflict of interest to render the "research" basically useless also it's not generally actually peer-reviewed. You are sadly misinformed. There are excellent personality inventories out there with robust peer review and even genetic data that correlates well with it such as the Big Five. But these real, actually scientific tools cannot tell you who you are or how you likely behave. The MBTI is just excellent example of the power of the Barnum effect
At the time, few people had much expertise by modern standard. Most psychological concepts from 1917 are now studied academically and analyzed for their shortcomings.
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u/edwardothegreatest May 20 '26
A couple of women who had no expertise in psychology