MBTI and Career Selection?

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Thought you might like to read this.

"A diagnostic test taken by more than 1.7-million Americans each
year who seek career counseling, known to psychologists as the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, is not a useful means of assessing
a given person’s likelihood of succeeding in a specific occupation.
At best, says the report, the test captures a person’s current
state of mind. At worst, it pigeonholes people into personality
‘types’ without being of real benefit in helping them to shape their career."

Quoted from the Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2, 1991, in
a report on "In the Mind’s Eye: Enhancing Human Performance," a study
commissioned by the National Research Council, the research arm of
the National Academies of Science and Engineering and the Institute
of Medicine.

Bob Gately, PE, MBA

[Schaeffer]

That's a summary of the experience of anyone who looks at the data. If there's
such a disproportionate number of people in one particular type (I forget
which--but I thought the proportion was in the 90% range), why isn't everyone
in the same job (or striving to be)? Doesn't that tell you something?
--Don Schaeffer

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>Subject: MBTI and Career Selection?
>Date: 4 Feb 1996 17:52:56 GMT