{"id":2562,"date":"2015-04-16T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2015-04-17T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:34:24","slug":"do-not-trust-myers-briggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/04\/do-not-trust-myers-briggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Trust Myers-Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that is my paraphrasing of <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/why-you-shouldnt-trust-the-myers-briggs-test-for-seriou-1697936838?utm_content=bufferf782a&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">this author\u2019s post<\/a>.\u00a0 The Myers-Briggs test is common throughout many business-world assessments and it serves a purpose.\u00a0 The difficulty I have always had with it is the binary aspect of the assessment.\u00a0 You are either Extroverted or Introverted\u2026there is no grey area.\u00a0 I think the author explains it well:<\/p>\n<p>More problematic, though, is that it classifies personalities by a binary preference for a particular trait. In reality, however, most people exist on a spectrum between the two and can vary between them from week to week\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Agreed.\u00a0 People are the ultimate variable and far from binary.\u00a0 I think the best use of the Myers-Briggs assessment is to define preferences, but not to make hiring decisions based off of it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a reliable assessment tool that does provide grayscale depth, I recommend our DISC-based, Selling Style Assessment (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Selling_Style.html\" target=\"_blank\">more details here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that is my paraphrasing of this author\u2019s post.\u00a0 The Myers-Briggs test is common throughout many business-world assessments and it serves a purpose.\u00a0 The difficulty I have always had with it is the binary aspect of the assessment.\u00a0 You are either Extroverted or Introverted\u2026there is no grey area.\u00a0 I think the author explains it well: More problematic, though, is that it classifies personalities by a binary preference for a particular trait. In reality, however, most people exist on a spectrum between the two and can vary between them from week to week\u2026 Agreed.\u00a0 People are the ultimate variable and far from binary.\u00a0 I think the best use of the Myers-Briggs&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/04\/do-not-trust-myers-briggs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[903,340,1692,212,1183],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Fk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->