Strengths And Weakness Of The Myers-Briggs Personality Test

The Myers-Briggs personality test is designed to help people understand their strengths and weaknesses. It allows people to become more aware of certain traits that may clash with other personalities and therefore helps people understand and value others who think or act differently. The Myers-Briggs identifies sixteen distinctive personality types. Questions are based upon the following: Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I), Sensing (S) or Intuition (N), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). Responses to the questions determine the personality type of the test-taker. My test resulted in the personality type ENTJ (Extravert, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging). Each personality type has strengths. Some strengths of the personality type ENTJ include critical thinking, ambition, cool headedness, and organization. Critical thinking allows people with the personality type ENTJ to make decisions rationally and quickly, which can help them in many areas of life. “ENTJs have a natural tendency to marshal and direct.” (ENTJ)
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“As the degree to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure, validity is a difficult property to evaluate in a test.” (Pittenger) Our brains are very complex and are full of mystery, and scientists have not yet learned the full extent on how our brain works. At the bottom of the results page of the personality test, there are other personality types I could be matched with. Even though it says I, personally, have more results because I was marginal or had no preference to some of the categories, I believe that everyone has more than one personality type. My personality test gave me three more results - ESTJ, ENFJ, ESFJ. I can review these results and find out even more strengths and weaknesses to improve my interactions with others and to reflect on how others may perceive my