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Myers-Briggs
Lady Penelope Started conversation Nov 25, 2001
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is not a trait test. The indicator is based on Jung's work on psychological type and *sorts* by psychological preference rather than measuring traits.
Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers-Briggs developed Jung's work and added a third pair of preferences - judging and perceiving - as a way of understanding the dynamics of each type. (Jung's pairs are extraversion/introversion, sensing/intution and thinking/feeling)
Their aim in producing the Indicator was to make Jung's ideas about psychological type accessible to ordinary people.
I think the MBTI material would sit better on the Jung page.
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