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Posted 08 December 2016 by
Global Marketing

MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / It Is Reliable

Patrick addressed that the criticism that the MBTI tool isn’t reliable all tracks back to one article published in 1993, before the current form was even published. Data show that test-retest reliability for the MBTI tool is actually very good. When people get a different result on the assessment from one time to the next, it is usually because they reported “slight” the first time. With a result of “slight,” you could have answered just a few questions differently ...

Posted 24 March 2016 by
Global Marketing

Common Criticisms of the MBTI are Misguided

Written for Psychology Today by John A. Johnson, Ph.D. Click here to read the full article in Psychology Today: http://bit.ly/1pzXOjz  The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and its spin-offs are among the most popular personality inventories in the world. The MBTI is widely used in organizational workshops to demonstrate how people with similar or different personalities interact with each other. Hundreds of thousands of people have enjoyed discovering their personality typ...

Posted 07 January 2016 by
Global Marketing

MBTI® Criticism

Time has just flown by—I’m at the last breakout session of the day. Aidan Millar is sharing ideas on how to answer criticism of the MBTI® assessment. Usually when people criticize the MBTI tool they don’t really know what it does and does not do. Aidan did a nice job of clarifying how to deal with such criticism, focusing on reputation, refinement, and relevance. When it comes to reputation, the MBTI tool is the most widely used personality tool in the world. Most Fortune 1...

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