MBTI Is Basically Astrology

Duncan Clarke・2 minutes read

Catherine Cook Briggs developed the MBTI personality system based on Carl Jung's ideas, criticized for its lack of scientific reliability compared to the Big Five model by McCrae and Costa. Personality is seen as a complex and evolving concept, with some philosophers questioning the very nature of the self.

Insights

  • Catherine Cook Briggs, inspired by her son-in-law's personality, developed the MBTI system in collaboration with her daughter Isabelle Briggs Myers, which categorizes individuals into 16 types based on four primary functions.
  • Despite its widespread use, the MBTI system has faced criticism for its lack of scientific rigor, with the Big Five model, known for its predictive reliability, being favored by most academic psychologists.

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Recent questions

  • Who developed the MBTI system?

    Catherine Cook Briggs and Isabelle Briggs Myers

  • What are the primary functions in the MBTI system?

    Sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking

  • What is the Big Five model?

    A personality model more reliable than MBTI

  • Where did Catherine Cook Briggs live?

    Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

  • What is the criticism of the MBTI system?

    Criticized as pseudoscience lacking predictive power

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"MBTI: Personality Typology and Criticisms"

  • Catherine Cook Briggs lived in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • In 1917, she observed her future son-in-law's unique personality, leading her to delve into biographies and create a personality typology.
  • Carl Jung published "Psychological Types" in Switzerland in 1921, which Briggs later incorporated into her own system.
  • Briggs, along with her daughter Isabelle Briggs Myers, developed the MBTI system based on Jung's ideas.
  • The MBTI system categorizes personalities into 16 types based on four primary functions: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.
  • MBTI has been criticized as pseudoscience, lacking predictive power and reliability, with most academic psychologists not supporting it.
  • The Big Five model, created by Robert McCrae and Paul Costa, is considered more reliable in predicting behavior than MBTI.
  • Personality is complex and constantly changing, with the self being viewed as an illusion by some philosophers like David Hume.
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