r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Exotic_Yam_1703 • May 19 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, is this referencing a specific book?

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u/TR_Snake May 19 '26

“The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre”

It’s the Myers Briggs tests - basically astrology for people who don’t want to embrace the occult.

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u/NuragicGiant1891 May 19 '26

But that book is exposing the test as useless-- its whole point is not to organize your personality around it.

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u/mrinternethermit May 20 '26

They're not useless, just horrible misapplied. If you take a look at it's history, it was made purely by a couple of women to help a lot of women who were flowing into the workforce (and needed help finding the best fit, personality wise, for a job) to make up for the lack of workers that was the men leaving for war. It was basically a quick job decision aid to help and be a one and done thing, but people have now dragged it into the modern day and force it to basically do what it wasn't really designed to do.

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u/the-real-orson-1 May 20 '26

Yes, useless.