“Because of our different backgrounds and upbringing, all sorts of things influence what we think,” he says, “but how we think is the same.” He says that the INFJ community on Reddit helped him understand himself a little better. “On our subreddit at least, we try to keep it contained to the discussion of theory, or at least from the viewpoint of the theory and the cognitive functions.” But what might motivate someone to solicit advice on the basis of a personality test?ĭilparic says it’s that people with similar similar personalities have shared outlooks on the world. “We do get a lot of posts like that seeking advice,” says one of the moderators of the INFJ Reddit subreddit, 20-year-old Mihailo Dilparic. There is one clipped suggestion to try asking a type with dominant ‘sensing’ or ‘feeling’ traits, who are ostensibly better suited to dealing with relationships.
Someone proposes working out each other's ‘love languages’, while those in same type pairings reflect on their own struggles. This kind of question might make a psychologist’s eyes tip perilously far back into their heads, but the answers proffered by MBTI redditors are sage, warm and non-judgmentally formulated. “As an INTJ, what are the things that I can do to better understand, relate to and communicate with my INFP wife? What are my blind spots with INFP people? What can I do/express to help my wife better understand me as an INTJ?” reads a recent post on the INTJ subreddit.
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Posts seeking advice on how to manage relationship or personal problems through the prism of typology abound. And people take it seriously: “I’m set on finding an INTJ partner” writes one impassioned ENFP. On Reddit, different subreddits are devoted to each of the 16 types. “I wanted to start sharing the thoughts that were going around in my head using the INFJ personality as a way of creating a shorthand connection – saying, ‘Hey, we’re similarly built in terms of our psychology, so maybe you'll relate to what I have to say’.”īut it’s not just on Youtube where communities are forged in the personality probing parlance of the Myers-Briggs test. His interest was fuelled by browsing Myers-Briggs content on Youtube, before he decided to chime into the conversation himself. James’ first foray into ‘typology’ (shorthand for the Myers-Briggs personality theory among its fans) took place three years ago. But this hasn’t stopped diehard Myers-Briggs fans seeing themselves within the test’s categories. The backlash against the Myers-Briggs test has been powerful – beyond being shunned by academics, a steady drip of articles over the years have condemned its shaky scientific grounding. Today, this is considered a crucial element of a personality tests. “Basically, there isn't an algorithm that translates how people answer into how they're likely to behave,” explains Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of business psychology at University College London. Another objection rests on the test’s inability to predict meaningful life outcomes. While the Myers-Briggs test lumps people into “types,” most modern personality tests measure traits on a continuum.
In academic circles, however, the test has long been discredited. The test gained widespread popular appeal, and was deployed across enterprise settings in the 80s – something that continues today in some sectors. Based on psychiatrist Carl Jung’s theory of personality, it groups testers into 16 ‘types’ based on their answers to a range of questions designed to assess behaviour and modes of thinking. The Myers-Briggs is a psychometric personality test developed in the middle of the last century by mother and daughter pair, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers.
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