A prevalent issue about MBTI In K-pop

Quote from bluetree

Actually I believe that the accurate tests are supposed to be this way: each question is categorised, and depending on how you answer that certain question you get a higher or lower percentage score on the letter category that question fits into. In the end it shows the percentages of each letter. Then it arranges your function stack based on what is the highest percentage of each section. it lists your likelihoods for every type, which is the strongest and which is the weakest. It essentially narrows down through the the types based on your answers, not a set pathway. On those proper tests, it’s possible for everybody to get a different answer.

That's exactly what those other tests do, take you down a pathway based on your answers to narrow down your results...

Maybe comparing it to those women's magazine tests was closer. You got mostly A's so you're a blahdiblah etc.

Quote from bluetree

…I don’t know what women’s magazine tests look like or how they work.

My point is, in some mbti tests you can see the percentage relating to the types in a pie chart… at least to me, it does not sound like what you're describing.

Kinda sounds similar. I guess the real question is, how accurate can MBTI be if humans are constantly changing.

Our personalities are not static things, they are constantly changing and evolving as we grow/change/evolve (or devolve lol) and the way we would answer the questions would change depending on our mood/day/environment etc. Humans are fluid so our MBTI would have to be fluid and changing to keep up with that. Someone who is an extrovert as a teenager may become an introvert into their adult years etc.

So something that is static can never really be an accurate representation of our personalities. I know there have been a lot of scientific studies on it and it fulfils the human need to categorise things to seem in control but if people aren't static, neither is our MBTI.

Quote from selfmate

can't be bothered besides I'd probably answer in the middle for all the questions anyway I'm very much a fence sitter

fence sitting sounds uncomfortable...

Quote from Kataphract

fence sitting sounds uncomfortable...

flat brick fencing lol

Quote from selfmate

flat brick fencing lol

Fair 'nuff.

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flat brick fencing lol

wait now I'm just imagining two professionals going at it with cinder blocks...

Maybe it's because my zodiac sign is basically the astrological equivalent of multiple personalities disorder but I don't really take those things seriously since I get wildly different results pretty much everytime I take it. I honestly just use it to gauge how I am at the moment, not who I am

Quote from bluetree

Think about the concepts of introvert and extrovert—it’s not what forms your personality, it simply categorises what recharges your batteries (alone time or social time).

THANK YOU! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

I'm mainly going to use introverts as an example but know extroverts are not safe from this. The fact that 'introverts' use that word to shield them from criticism of not going out and socially interacting is like baffling and kind of worrying.

Quote from the101

These tests never tell me anything I don't already know - I'm a bossy extrovert who's not great at emotional stuff.

I'm an ENTJ through and through - and the more specific tests you listed above said the same thing. I have never changed..

Ohhh I am an ENTJ too.RISE OF ENTJ NATION

Quote from ISaidISaid

Ohhh what’s an accurate way to get MBTI online? Do you have any resource rec?

I personally really love Sakinorva (or however you spell it). First of all, there’s a bunch of questions you answer on a scale, and when it gives you your results, it tells you which cognitive functions you have the highest results in and which ones you have the lowest results in. It also then tells you how likely you are to be any of the given types, based on the order of how strong each of your cognitive functions is, and because each type has a different order they use the functions in. It’s very far from perfect, and you should never trust any MBTI test completely and fully, but it’s a good place to start, and from there, you can do more research into it (if you want), just to double and triple check that your result makes sense.

Quote from Kataphract

Tangentially related:

16 personalities isn't regarded as a good MBTI questionnaire among Personality enthusiasts.

r/mbti on reddit has some posts explaining why.

Yep, this is 100% true. Yet many people go to it first due to it’s popularity, which leads to so, so many false misconceptions about it.

Quote from tetetete

taehyung said his mbti is capricorn

Genius!

Anyone familiar with genuine MBTI enthusiasts knows that 16 Personalities is a very poor site. The most accurate way to determine your MBTI type is through tests that evaluate the cognitive functions of each type. For example, the function order for an INFP is Fi–Ne–Si–Te, and each function in this order actually has a specific meaning. In this respect, 16 Personalities is overly reductive and based on stereotypes. For a more accurate perspective, tests like Sakirnova’s, which take into account the functions and their roles, provide a much healthier approach to discovering your MBTI type.