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maoutan · 3 months ago

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My soul dies a little every time I see a normal person in a casual context bring up which characters have the same MBTI as them simply because 9 times out of ten that's not even the correct MBTI for the person OR the character

#MBTI #my opinions on it are ultimately it's a very flawed system full of holes that shouldn't be taken scientifically at all in any way #and every typology system is also flawed and vibes-based #however personality tests is not where it starts and ends. 16personalities is not MBTI it's big5 with worse questions #and even though personality database as an userbase has gone past “they're introverted so they gotta be an I type” shit #it still doesn't stop them from being egregiously wrong more often than not #don't get me started on people who get so caught up in theory they forget humans are multifaceted #typology is pretty fun for facilitating self-exploration and giving you some sort of framework to work with #and it's good for exploring and writing characters though I think only in the same vein as one would explore oneself #genuinely I think the impact it had on the way I understood myself or others was massive because I suddenly had something to work with #overall just being exposed to the idea that “different people think and value things differently” and list examples to start with is useful #especially when examples are given and some sort of rough categorization exists #it's just labels in the end that don't mean much or anything at all but they're nice #especially because they're not based on immutable traits like your birthday your race etc #by the way tests get my typology wrong almost every time. personality tests will never be the be all end all of typology

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