In Reply to: Has there ever been a study done on the effect of different music on different personality types? posted by artemus on July 12, 2017 at 16:54:48:
The Myers-Briggs has poor psychometric qualities in several respects. First, the idea that we have fixed "personality types," within the MB codetypes, isn't supported by data showing that people retain these codetypes on retest over long periods of time have gone by. In other words, the codetype has not been shown to have high test-retest reliability over long intervals.
Second, there is no real validity data showing that the codetypes accurately predict real-world behavior to a statistically significant extent.
There are some references in this wikipedia article to peer-reviewed research showing the lack of reliability and validity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
P.S. I'm a clinical psychologist
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Follow Ups
- Artemus: " I am an ENTP on MB..." - pbarach 14:10:30 07/14/17 (16)
- RE: Artemus: " I am an ENTP on MB..." - Pat D 16:31:54 07/18/17 (0)
- MB was NEVER the object. It was a reference. Do you believe different people have different personalities? Or. - artemus 12:11:34 07/15/17 (11)
- MB has become a standard for deining personality types and valid criticisms of MBTI - Timbo in Oz 20:06:32 07/22/17 (0)
- I believe MB... - mkuller 11:59:38 07/17/17 (5)
- RE: I believe MB... - pbarach 14:13:19 07/17/17 (4)
- MB is used heavily... - mkuller 15:22:57 07/17/17 (3)
- In the context of: tutoring university students, being a change agent, and trainer-trainer of volunteer fireys - Timbo in Oz 19:42:35 07/22/17 (0)
- RE: MB is used heavily... - pbarach 15:29:20 07/17/17 (1)
- Since you asked... - mkuller 15:48:57 07/17/17 (0)
- RE: MB was NEVER the object. It was a reference. Do you believe different people have different personalities? Or. - Dave Pogue 05:20:17 07/16/17 (2)
- RE: MB was NEVER the object. It was a reference. Do you believe different people have different personalities? Or. - pbarach 07:58:11 07/16/17 (1)
- Didn't take you long to break that one, did it? - Dave Pogue 16:11:24 07/17/17 (0)
- RE: MB was NEVER the object. It was a reference. Do you believe different people have different personalities? Or. - pbarach 20:23:31 07/15/17 (0)
- I hope you see that I am not opposed to psychology. - Timbo in Oz 02:27:18 07/15/17 (1)
- RE: I hope you see that I am not opposed to psychology. - pbarach 04:38:14 07/15/17 (0)
- Thankyou and I hope you do 'get' that I do not 'object' to psychology. - Timbo in Oz 21:00:32 07/14/17 (0)