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by iron0013 2076 days ago
Myers Briggs is completely without value, and gives all personality inventories an undeserved bad name! There certainly exist well-validated personality inventories that reflect the scientific consensus that personality can be represented within the Big Five or similar HEXACO frameworks, but they bear no resemblance to Myers Briggs. Frankly at this point it’s irresponsible and borderline unethical to keep Myers Briggs alive as anything other than an embarrassing historical footnote.
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> Myers Briggs is completely without value, and gives all personality inventories an undeserved bad name! There certainly exist well-validated personality inventories that reflect the scientific consensus that personality can be represented within the Big Five or similar HEXACO frameworks, but they bear no resemblance to Myers Briggs.

That's not entirely true, since two of the Meyers-Briggs axis are strongly correlated with Big Five axes; so something that maps well to Big Five will likely bear a resemblance to about half of MBTI.