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TimbersType's avatar

This is exactly right. I've been skeptical of Myers-Briggs since its heyday in the '90s, when I and virtually all my friends tested as INFPs, despite that type supposedly being one of the rarest. I looked for scientific origins or confirmations of the system and could find nothing.

I was once on a group vacation with an Enneagram practitioner who described the nine personality types in that system. I remember thinking, as she was getting to the end, that none of the types matched my mother in the slightest—and then the next type described her to a T. But does that mean it's a useful way to understand or explain people? At most, both these systems may serve as shortcut ways to describe people you already know well.

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DJ's avatar

I’ve consistently tested as INTJ for 25 years (5 or 6 tests during that time). Does that mean anything?

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