Name: アダムはすべてを台無しにする - なぜマイヤーズ・ブリッグステストは全くの無意味なのか｜truTV (Adam Ruins Everything - Why the Myers-Briggs Test is Total B.S. | truTV)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:06:23.000Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s
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The Myers-Briggs test always seemed so scientific.

of science-y-sounding jargon, but the truth is,

Famed psychologist Carl Jung has a theory.

I surmise human beings   can be broken down

into eight different   personality types.

This was a time before psychology used scientific methods,

Welp, that is good enough  for science in 1921.

But Carl Jung   didn't even make the test.

they took his ideas    and made them better.

and her magazine writer mother, Katharine Cook Briggs,

Mama, I'm bored of writing   mystery novels.

I just read some old Carl Jung  book about personality types,

and I bet us two unqualified nobodies could do a better job.

And so these two writers, who had no scientific training,

took theories from one of Carl Jung's non-scientific books

and came up with their list  of personality types.

Ooh, my friend Carrie is a such a Samantha.

(Adam) Which, for some reason, they doubled from eight to 16.

And in 1944,    they published the thing.

That's really where the Myers-Briggs test came from?