The MBTI test consists of 16 possible personality types, and even lists the career you're suited for based on your type.
Read More: Myers-Briggs Personality Types Put To The Test Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, then sought to measure personality via the previously stated traits. Psychologist Carl Jung developed these ideas by working with patients.
The MBTI test measures people on whether they're extroverted or introverted relies on their senses or intuition whether they lean towards thinking or feeling and whether they’re more likely to be judging or perceiving. In SciShow Psych's video, "Do Personality Tests Mean Anything?" host Brit Garner explains the key to identifying someone's personality is by looking at the individual traits people have that seem to be stable across time and apply in different contexts. However, these four-letter personality types (i.e., ISTJ or ENFP), don't mean much - they fail to include what psychologists define as personality, including thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors. Many of us are guilty of taking silly personality tests like, "What fast food chain are you?" or " What piece of furniture describes you best?" We know not to take them seriously, but there are others, like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), that we trust, because a lot of psychologists once did too.
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