So you start by answering dozens of questions, questions like, when you go somewhere for the day would you rather A, plan on what you will do and when, or B, just go? And when you’re finished you get sorted into one of 16 personality types. But maybe you could remind me of exactly how it works?ĬHRIS AGUSA: Yeah, sure. So the Myers Briggs is the most popular personality test in the world. JOHN DANKOWSKY: It takes all types I suppose. How about you, Chris?ĬHRIS AGUSA: Yeah, so I’m an INFP, which apparently means I’m a little bit more spontaneous than Johanna and more open to new experiences. JOHANNA MAYER: Well I tend to get a different type every single time that I take the test, but I think most recently I got INFJ, which supposedly means I’m a little private, a little idealistic. JOHN DANKOWSKY: So before we go any further, I need to ask, what are your Myers Briggs types? Here to tell us more is Johanna Mayer, host of Science Diction, and Chris Agusa, a reporter who co-produced this episode. Our podcast, Science Diction, is releasing a three part series on the invention of the Myers Briggs personality test. Now you might assume that Myers and Briggs were psychologists but they were actually a mother daughter team who were complete outsiders to the world of psychology. Now I just took the test and I got the four letter result ENFP, which supposedly means that I’m an outgoing, open hearted, free spirit. You ever take the Myers Briggs Type Indicator? You know, the famous personality test? You answer test questions and then get sorted into one of 16 personality types. Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.Science Diction host Johanna Mayer and reporter Chris Egusa join John Dankosky to tell that story. In the first episode: A look at the unlikely origins of the test, going all the way back to the late 1800s when Katharine Briggs turned her living room into a “cosmic laboratory of baby training” and set out to raise the perfect child. Science Diction is releasing a special three-part series on the rise of the Myers-Briggs. And the product they created-the Myers Briggs Type Indicator-would eventually become the world’s most popular personality test. They may have been outsiders, but Katharine and Isabel did their homework, and approached the test the way a trained psychologist likely would have. In reality, they were a mother-daughter team who were outsiders to the research world: Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. If you’re one of the 2 million people who take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator every year, perhaps you thought Myers and Briggs are the two psychologists who designed the test. Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel, the inventors of the Myers-Briggs test.
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