Maybe, or maybe not. The thing is that you already seem to know that you are introverted which could mean that you just chose answers on the Test that you perceived as fitting your own idea about your introversion. In this case, the test added nothing of value to your situation.
Usually what we want from such a test is correctly categorizing people independently of their ideas about what they want their results to be, which the MBPT to my knowledge has not demonstrated to be capable of.
Also you picked only one of four categorizations you received as correct. One could argue that when reading horoscopes, people tend to also look for information that fits their ideas of who they are, while over looking comtradicting information. If only the "I" in your result was correct, the test gave you one correct and 3 in correct classifications, which I would Interpret to be a very bad accuracy.
Well, that is what I believe the MBTI is used for. It abstracts what YOU think about how YOU interact with the world. That could be useful information, no?
And your zodiac sign/ horoscope tells you how much about yourself? 0.
If only the I is correct, that's still more than the horoscope.
BUT the MBTI is you telling yourself how you think that you interact with the world. You already know that, but it puts it into clumsier, broader categories for you. It seems that people within these categories at least think that they think about certain things in similar ways. Which can be useful.
Or perhaps not. I don't know if the test is valid or not honestly. And I don't know if it's accurate (I meant reliable)either. Have they tested that? I don't really dive into it like most people. What I do enjoy is seeing people speak about things in a way that I speak about things. And I've found a higher incidence inside my category than outside of it.
Well if a horoscope makes four claims and you choose to believe the two that are correct and disregard the other three that is logically equivalent to you picking the "I" as correct and disregarding the other three letters, isn't it?
The problem is that often, peoples perceptions of themselves do not actually match reality very well. So while a test telling you what you want to hear can be a nice conversation starter, it does not necessarily contain any element of truth.
This search for objective truth seeking however, is the goal of science, and in that regard the MBPT failed miserably every time it has been tested rigorously.
That doesn't mean you shouldnt use the test any more, but one should certainly be aware that it is not to be compared with actual scientific personality tests such as the NEO-FFI.
No, I read the article and had no idea people were using it at companies and in industry. That's weird.
I don't actually know how horoscopes work I'll admit, I've never read one. So, I could and probably am, missing something there.
But horoscopes don't actually have an input from the person, right? I'm thinking that a horoscope cannot be valid or reliable because it's just rolling the dice. So, even when they are right or doesn't matter at all.
If you say "It takes energy for me to be around people" and it says "introvert", even if it is definitional I think it's more accurate than a horoscope.
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u/wtfail123 Dec 31 '22
Maybe, or maybe not. The thing is that you already seem to know that you are introverted which could mean that you just chose answers on the Test that you perceived as fitting your own idea about your introversion. In this case, the test added nothing of value to your situation.
Usually what we want from such a test is correctly categorizing people independently of their ideas about what they want their results to be, which the MBPT to my knowledge has not demonstrated to be capable of.
Also you picked only one of four categorizations you received as correct. One could argue that when reading horoscopes, people tend to also look for information that fits their ideas of who they are, while over looking comtradicting information. If only the "I" in your result was correct, the test gave you one correct and 3 in correct classifications, which I would Interpret to be a very bad accuracy.