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Yeah it’s also why I can’t land jobs.

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My wife was applying for an admin assistant job once and complained that she was 30 questions in and the questions kept coming. I took one look and said “oh thats a personality quiz” she closed the tab right then and there.

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What sort of screwed up jobs are you trying to get?

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Haha it was actually for a serving job at 99 Restaurant.

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Don’t work in the service industry. Sex work pays better and is less demeaning.

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I’m no fan of personality grouping and there’s certainly no genuine science to the Meyers-Briggs in the traditional sense, but that doesn’t mean it’s the same as astrology.

Astrology tries to offer insight into your future based on birth conditions.

Meyers-Briggs basically says that people who answer these questions a certain way tend to share certain personality traits or quirks. It’s been refined extensively over the years compared to where it started.

There’s nothing especially predictive about it and that’s where it becomes dangerous. The temptation is to use it to assume anything about human action and performance and businesses do this all the time. Just because an IFTP did this job well, doesn’t mean anything about any other IFTPs and their ability to function in the environment.

Human personality is complex and nuanced and trying to build tools to understand it is generally laudable, but the simpler the tool, the easier its abuse. Meyers-Briggs is better than a lot of other personality assessment tools, which are so simplistic they often just serve as a tool to create discussion. Meyers-Briggs, with its slightly more nuanced take, creates the illusion of science with the ability to predict.

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I would… But as an ENFJ I’m not fond of conflict… Jk it’s all trash.

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