PAR19689

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Personality Assessments Response MBTI- ESTJ or ESFJ Executive Leader
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Big 5- 1. Extroversion- 28 2. Agreeableness- 26 3. Conscientiousness- 42 4. Neuroticism- 22 5. Openness- 11

There are good and bad to both tests. I think that the Myers Brigg Type Indicator’s results were a little easier to interpret but the test itself aggravated me. I did not like the questions or the way they were worded. I had to look some of the words up in the dictionary so it wasn’t the easiest thing to take. And I also did not like how there were only six buttons for the answers therefore was no neutral button because there were times that I did not agree with either statement. Another thing that aggravated me about this test was that the two statements I had to choose from often had nothing to do with each other and occasionally I would agree or disagree with both so I couldn’t pick a “correct” answer for myself. The Big 5 test on the other hand was very easy to take. The statements were clear and easy to comprehend. But the results are a little on the vague side. I don’t know what conscientiousness or neuroticism means so I couldn’t really interpret the results as well as the first test. But overall I think I like this test better because of the test itself.
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Well for some reason, my computer would not let me pull up the article but I did get to read the abstract. The MBTI does have decades of popularity and I took a written form to this test while I was in high school and it seemed a lot different then what I took. The questions seemed a little easier to understand. The abstract says that “…, there was no support for the view that the MBTI measures truly dichotomous preferences or qualitatively distinct types; instead, the instrument measures four relatively independent dimensions.” So I guess that scientists are moving more towards the Big 5 because the MBTI doesn’t actually measure preferences or qualitatively distinct types. But to me, I don’t think that preferences can actually be accurately measured. There are so many different variables that can affect the test and I think the biggest one would be that it is based on self report. Some people might take the test in the mindset of who they would like to be rather than who they really are so the results are going to be skewed. Another variable that could affect the results would be how the person is feeling that day. That could affect the reliability and validity of the test because consistency of the person’s answers (if they took the test more than once) would be thrown off. However, I do think that both tests can give people an estimate of their preference. The two test kind of correlate with each other in some ways. For instance, the Extroversion vs. Introversion of the MBTI goes with the Extraversion category of the Big 5 and the Sensing vs. Intuition goes with the Openness. But for the reason scientist are changing from one to the other is probably based on a couple different factors. Times change therefore people change; people might just want something new. Scientist must truly believe that the Big 5 measures preferences more accurately than the MBTI, but how do they know this? Are they really 100% sure they know exactly what they are testing? Are they absolutely positive that those questions are really testing personality type? It makes no difference to me what test they use. I took both and my results came back relatively similar. But honestly, how can a person’s whole personality type be based on 4 or 5 little words? That is my question.
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