Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Like all psychological tests they suffer from a heisenberg type weakness, where they make the observer the participant, which means they are only serve to categorize your current state of being and not nessicarily your overall sense of being.

>>2970334
>ENTJ
>Doing what other people tells them

Of course it's true anyone with an ounce of sense can see there's exactly 16 types of people in the world

>>2970320
It's mostly rubbish.

Not 100% rubbish (making a completely useless personality test would actually be an impressive accomplishment), but mostly. The test really does two things, which, by the by, are the exact same things psychics and other con-men types do to make you think they're reading your mind (or your palms or your fortune, whatever).

When Myers-Briggs makes *specific* claims about your personality, it's parroting exactly what you said back to you. "You're an introvert and find large social events taxing." That's not exactly an impressive deduction when you answered B to a question like "Do rapid-fire social interactions with strangers A) energize you or B) tax your reserves?"

When it makes *broad* claims about your personality, it's feeding you information that's so general it could reasonably be taken to apply to anyone, but it's phrased carefully to make you think they're speaking directly to you. E.g. "You generally take a big-picture view of things, but have the ability to focus on small details when you feel they're important." "You wear a superficial social mask, but when others get close to you, they often find you have hidden depths." "You are often abstract in thought and speech." Those sentences could all apply to literally any person on the face of the Earth, but when they're mixed in with specific information the test has rephrased and parroted back to you, it's easy to lose sight of that.

The upshot is that while your M-B type might be consistent, it's not really meaningful. Two INTJs aren't necessarily going to be much like each other, any more than you and your roommate have the same personality because you both got "Hermione" on a "Which Harry Potter character are you?" test on BuzzFeed. The test is certainly not meaningful enough for employers to base hiring decisions off of them, or for your therapist or psychiatrist to base treatment decisions off of them.

>Rubbish or legitimate?

Somewhere in the middle, it maps onto Big Five, which is a commonly used psychometric tool used by modern psychology.

INTJ, btw.

>>2970320
It's the horoscope for autists. They even talk about it in the exact same way.

>>2970601

>It's the horoscope for autists

Explain.