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by smoe 2077 days ago
Anecdotally, McKinsey and other consulting people are/were pretty obsessed with it. At least those are the only ones I ever heard using it in a normal human conversation. At first I was terribly confused talking to people referring to themselves and others with what sounded like bad passwords. But it fits the general cult like behavior.
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It sounds just enough like science for people to pay a lot of money for it, but not enough like science that it scares anyone. Of course, it's pretty much bullshit for many reasons.
Scientifically valid personality tests are illegal for HR to use outside of exceptional roles in specific industries. These Meyers-Briggs-like tests are pseudoscientific silliness.