If the answer is "no," then the test or measure should not be taken seriously. ... Type-based personality tests like Myers-Briggs and similar others often fail to meet standards of good science.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a test you can take online to figure out your personality type. You answer a bunch of questions, and then you’ve given one of 16 types.

There is no singular Myers-Briggs personality type that can be drawn as the most unfriendly of them all. However, particular dichotomies of these differing types may make them seem more unfriendly ...

Personality tests aren’t new—an early version of the Myers-Briggs test was copyrighted in 1943—but interest in them has endured. People slap their four-letter Myers-Briggs type on their ...