For millennia, we have tried to put human personalities into neat types, an effort psychology took up early in its history in an effort to legitimize itself. But is the idea of types – which all personality inventories are based on - flawed to begin with?
# Summary
Josh and Chuck dive into the history and science behind personality tests, with a focus on the wildly popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that dominates corporate America. They trace the concept back through Jung's early theories and follow how two women named Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Catherine created the MBTI to help women entering the workforce after World War II, eventually becoming the go-to team-building tool for companies everywhere. Along the way, they explore what makes these tests tick, how they're supposed to work, and most importantly, why psychologists think the Myers-Briggs is basically nonsense masquerading as science.
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