MBTI

11 essays tagged mbti.

• Self-awarenessMBTI7 min

  The Worst Way to Use a Personality Test (Avoid This)

  Personality tests can be useful at work. They can also do real damage when used wrong. Here are the four failure modes that quietly hurt teams and how to avoid them

• Big FiveMBTIScience10 min

  Big Five vs MBTI: What 16Personalities Won't Tell You

  16Personalities feels accurate because MBTI-style descriptions are built to feel accurate. Here is what the actual research says, and what a real personality measurement looks like.

• Big FiveMBTIScience8 min

  Big Five vs MBTI: What the Research Actually Says

  MBTI feels useful, but the science backs the Big Five instead. Here's what 50 years of research shows, and why it matters for how you read your results.

• MBTIBig FiveBig decisions8 min

  ENFP in Big Five Terms: What the Four Letters Translate To

  ENFP captures a real trait pattern that the Big Five can measure directly. Here is what the translation looks like across the five continuous dimensions

• MBTIBig FiveBig decisions8 min

  If You Got 'INTJ' on the MBTI, Here's the Big Five Translation

  INTJ is a four-letter shortcut for a Big Five pattern researchers can actually measure. Here is what the trait-level translation looks like

• MBTIScience8 min

  Is the Myers-Briggs Test Scientific? A Citations-First Look

  The MBTI is the world's most popular personality test. The research consensus on its scientific validity is less popular. Here is what the evidence shows.

• MBTIScience7 min

  What the MBTI Actually Gets Right (a Steelman)

  The MBTI has real validity problems. It also captures something the research-backed alternatives often miss. Here is the honest steelman case

• MBTIBig Five7 min

  How to Translate Your MBTI Type Into Big Five Scores

  Each MBTI letter maps roughly onto one Big Five trait. Here is the quick conversion guide, plus the one trait the MBTI does not measure at all

• MBTIScience8 min

  5 Personality Test Myths the Research Quietly Killed

  Five widely repeated claims about personality tests that the research does not actually support — from type stability to the idea that tests measure who you are

• ScienceMBTI8 min

  A Short History of Personality Testing: From Galton to Big Five

  How personality testing went from Victorian-era word-counting to the Big Five — and why MBTI took over the popular market while researchers moved elsewhere

• MBTIScience7 min

  Why Personality Tests Are Having a Moment (Again)

  The MBTI started in corporate training and went viral on TikTok. Here is what the cultural pattern actually tells us about why personality tests keep coming back