Do personality tests work? - Merve Emre
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In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that classified people’s personalities into 16 types. Called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, it would go on to become one of the world’s most widely-used personality tests. But do these tests actually reveal truths about personality? Merve Emre examines their design flaws.
Have you ever taken a personality test? To what extent were the results a true representation of yourself?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Merve Emre
- Director Seoro Oh
- Narrator Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Sound Designer Seoro Oh
- Music Jellysound
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Editorial Producer Elizabeth Cox
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
