Judging/Perceiving: This dimension refers to how you prefer to organize your life.Feelers prefer decisions that are consistent with their values and help to build harmonious relationships. Thinkers prefer decisions that are based on facts or data, and like to reason things out logically. Thinking/Feeling: This dimension refers to how you prefer to make decisions.Intuitives are often more imaginative than realistic. Intuitives tend to be more abstract in their perceptions, and tend to think more about meaning, connections, and possibilities. They tend to be practical and oriented to the present moment. Sensors gather information in a very concrete, detail-oriented, and factual way. Sensing/Intuition: This dimension refers to how you prefer to take in information.Introverts are more focused on their internal world, thoughts, ideas, and feelings, and get energy from spending time in solitary activity or quiet reflection. Extraverts are focused on the external world and other people, and are energized by external stimulation and interaction with others.
Moreover, the MBTI omits genuine aspects of personality that have negative connotations, such as neuroticism (emotional instability) or facets of low conscientiousness. The MBTI’s type-based feedback is also not especially consistent a person who takes the test twice may well receive two different type designations.
Personality tests favored by scientists, such as the Big Five Inventory, describe each personality not in categorical terms, but rather based on how high or low a person scores on each of five (or six) non-overlapping traits. Traits are more accurately viewed not as categorical dichotomies-extrovert or introvert, thinker or feeler-but as continuous dimensions: For each trait, an individual can rate relatively high, low, or somewhere in the middle, and most people fall in the middle. Why do experts take issue with the MBTI? One reason is that while the Myers-Briggs assigns people distinct types, scientific evidence indicates that personalities do not fit neatly into 16 boxes. Psychologists who investigate personality typically rely on scientifically developed assessments of traits clustered into five (the Big Five) or six ( HEXACO) domains. While the MBTI is used by many organizations to select new personnel and has been taken millions of times, personality psychologists and other scientists report that it has relatively little scientific validity. The results combined into one of 16 possible type descriptions, such as ENTJ or ISFP. When responses are scored, the assessment yields a psychological “type” summarized in four letters, one for each preference: Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I) Sensing (S) or Intuiting (N) Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). The MBTI was initially developed in the 1940s by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabell Briggs Myers, loosely based on a personality typology created by psychoanalyst Carl Jung. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an assessment of personality based on questions about a person’s preferences in four domains: focusing outward or inward attending to sensory information or adding interpretation deciding by logic or by situation and making judgments or remaining open to information.