The Psychology of your 20s - 337. Are personality tests legit?
Episode Date: September 28, 2025From Myers-Briggs to the Big Five, almost all of us at some stage have done a personality test. Whether it labelled you an introvert or extrovert, a big thinker or a small details individual, it's eas...y to get swept up in the idea that these tests can tell us all we need to know about our personality and identity. But are they legit, and what is the science behind them? In today's episode, we break down: The scientific basis for personality tests The interesting, feminist history behind personality tests Reliability vs. validity vs. relatability Why we end up believing what we read How to actually use personality tests to your advantage Listen now! ORDER MY BOOK Follow Jemma on Instagram: @jemmasbeg Follow the podcast on Instagram: @thatpsychologypodcast For business: psychologyofyour20s@gmail.com The Psychology of your 20s is not a substitute for professional mental health help. If you are struggling, distressed or require personalised advice, please reach out to your doctor or a licensed psychologist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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So welcome today, we are going to talk about one such topic, which is personality tests.
from Myers-Briggs to the big five.
It feels like we are often asked to kind of define ourselves with a four-letter code or a one-word answer.
We especially love them in our 20s.
I remember sitting around the dinner table when I was at college and everyone was doing their 16 personalities quiz.
It's definitely a time where we feel very drawn to this.
very drawn to the idea that someone could just tell us who we were.
They're kind of almost like zodiac science.
Like they're a shortcut to understanding ourselves and to understanding others.
You know, maybe you're an INFJ, maybe you're 90% extrovert.
Maybe you're the architect.
Maybe you're the commander.
If you've ever done your personality test, you'll know what I'm talking about with
these.
And for a moment, that feels really, really satisfying.
Like someone just handed you the manual for your own brain.
Someone told you what you're good at, told you what you're good at,
told you what you're bad at, told you what to look out for.
And that's, like I said, that feels amazing.
But there are a couple of big questions that come with that.
Firstly, can you really, can you really siphon everything about a person down into a four-letter
word using, what, 30 questions?
And is that actually a good thing?
because the moment we start categorizing something that is as complex and fluid as human identity,
we kind of run into a few problems, right?
Firstly, are these tests even legitimate?
Are they just giving people the answers that they want to hear?
Secondly, are they totally restrictive?
Are they like telling us the full picture?
Or are they more just meant to be used for a little bit of fun,
like a BuzzFeed quiz.
What's the real use for these kinds of tests?
To answer that, we first have to talk about what these tests are actually trying to do and why.
Why it is that we love them so much?
So most of them, if not all of them, are based on the idea of trait theory.
Now, trait theory is basically a psychological approach to human behavior and human personality
that attempts to identify and measure the fundamental characteristics of each individual.
The core assumption here is that our personality and in a way our identity is made up of a set of
stable internal traits that influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviors,
and that are kind of innate within us.
And when we understand everyone's formula or everyone's recipe,
we understand them as people.
This is kind of different from some other famous ideas about personality.
For example, psychodynamic theories like Freud's really suggest that personality is driven
by unconscious conflicts.
Humanistic theories kind of talk about self-actualization and fulfillment and growth.
Spiritual theories talk about the soul.
But trait theorists really say, no.
Let's just measure the consistent parts of who you are.
I can tell what those things will be using certain questions and there we go.
We'll call it a date.
That's who you are.
As humans, I've talked about this so often on the podcast, we do have a need for cognitive
closure and for certainty.
So basically, we desire, we crave firm answers and we don't love the unknown,
especially when those unknowns are about ourselves.
You know, the messiness of human personality is very overwhelming, especially earlier on in life.
You know, am I introverted? Am I extroverted? Should I do this? Should I do that? Why do I feel like I'm this
person one day, this person the next? Tests give us the illusion of clarity. They hand us a label and they say,
this is who you are. Now act that way. And it's not just about clarity, but also about identity and
belonging. If you're categorized into a personality type, I feel like you suddenly know you're not
alone. I've definitely had this experience of being at like a party and it's come up and someone says,
oh, you know, I'm an INFJ or I'm an ENF, whatever it is. And it's like, oh my God, maybe we should be
friends. Or a friend tells you their personality type and you're like, oh, that's just proof.
That's proof that we're meant to be together. We're meant to be bonded. And that can be incredibly
comforting. So sometimes I think we cling onto these personality labels for a sense of identity
and a sense of understanding of ourselves, but also of social identity as well. But of course,
of course, if we become too attached to the label, we can start to develop this very surface level
one-dimensional view of us as people. And we can start to ignore the ways that we grow and we change
and we develop. Before we get into the different types of tests, we do need to understand two
fundamental concepts in psychological testing. Not the most entertaining, flashy part of psychology,
but one of the most important. These are reliability and validity. And they basically determine how good
a test, how good a questionnaire, how good a measure is of what it's trying to tell us about.
So reliability refers to the consistency of the test results.
A reliable test will produce the same or very similar scores each time a person takes it,
assuming that based on trait theory, the underlying traits haven't changed.
And that's a crucial part of what these personality tests believe.
So a great analogy for this is a bathroom scale.
If you step on it five times in a row and it gives you different weights every single time,
it's unreliable. If you take a personality test and it gives you a different result every single time,
it's also unreliable. Validity on the other hand refers to the accuracy of a test. A valid test
measures what it claims to measure. Going back to the scale analogy, if the scale is consistent and it
says you weigh, I don't know, it's 90 kilos every single time, but your actual weight is 70 kilos. The scale,
is reliable. It's telling you 90 kilos, but it's not valid. You actually weigh 70. Maybe it's not
calibrated properly. Maybe it's like not a very high tech scale, but it's consistently giving you the
wrong number. A test basically can be reliable and not be valid, but for a test to be considered
truly valid, it has to firstly be reliable. It has to give you the same result every time,
and that result has to actually reflect something that is happening.
Now that we have those two ideas, let's look at some of these really famous models.
When we talk about measuring personality, there's a huge divide actually between what is popular
and what is scientifically backed.
The model with the most scientific validation is the big five.
I think this is taught in every intro to psychology course ever all over the world.
It's also known by its five-factor anagram ocean, O.C.E.
E-A-N. Its legitimacy really stems from its empirical basis. So it wasn't created by a specific theory.
It wasn't like someone had a theory and was like, let's fill in the gaps. It emerged naturally from
decades and decades of research. Now, the roots of the Big Five model can be traced back to the 1930s
with the psychologist called Gordon Alport. But it really didn't solidify until the 90s through the works of
other researchers who came along found outports initial findings and were like, wait, there's
something really good here. Through various different studies, like across various different cultures,
they found that personality descriptions consistently clustered around five broad dimensions or
areas. Now, the acronym Ocean helps us remember them. The first is openness to experience.
Are you cautious or are you curious?
The second is conscientiousness.
Are you organized?
Are you type A or are you type B and very easygoing kind of go with the flow?
Extraversion?
I think this one's pretty self-explanatory.
Are you outgoing or are you solitary?
Agreeableness.
Are you compassionate?
Do you like to, you know, kind of do you like to make friends with people but also not stir the pot?
Or are you sometimes a little bit detached or a little bit inflammatory?
And finally is neuroticism.
Are you anxious or are you, I guess, anxiety-free or confident?
This is how they describe it.
Neuroticism is kind of an outdated term now.
So bear that in mind, but it is an important part of this model.
And the reason this model is powerful is because it works on spectrums.
So you're not an extrovert or an introvert.
You are not either outgoing or solitary, organized or easygoing.
you can kind of be a little bit more to the left, a little bit more to the right, maybe right in the middle.
The nuance makes the Big Five much more accurate than those rigid type-based systems.
And it's generally a lot more reliable and actually likely to apply to people.
The other thing about the Big Five is that it has been shown to predict important life outcomes.
For example, conscientious people tend to perform.
better academically and professionally.
People high in neuroticism.
This is linked to greater anxiety and depression.
Extraversion often predicts larger social networks.
So it's also valid.
But here's the catch.
It still doesn't tell us why we are the way we are.
It describes it.
It just can't explain it.
And it may not capture culture differences fully,
since a lot of the early research was Western, as is the case with, I would say, most if not all,
psychology tools.
Here's what I mean by that.
The Big Five was largely developed using English language personality descriptors, and it was tested
on participants in the US and in Europe, where psychology really got its foothold.
It means that the model reflects the cultural lens of individualism.
Implicitly, there is a...
a lot more focus within this test on independence, on personal achievement, on self-expression,
when sometimes the way that our personality traits are expressed can be a lot more subtle.
Personality also isn't just biology, right? It's also shaped by culture. In more collectivist cultures
like many in East Asia, Africa or Latin America, certain traits may look different or they
matter differently. For example, what psychologists call agreeableness being cooperative, warm,
compassionate, that might not be an individual trait in those contexts. It can actually be a
cultural expectation, something that everyone is taught to express in order to maintain harmony.
So when you measure it, you're not actually measuring personality, you're measuring a cultural
norm. There are also traits that just don't fit neatly into the Big Five framework.
Humor is one of them. Some researchers also studying personality traits within China have argued
for a sixth factor called interpersonal relatedness, which emphasizes not so much being
extroverted or being agreeable, but respect, fulfilling one's role in the group, and maintaining
harmony. That is something that the Big Five just doesn't have the nuances to necessarily or explicitly
capture because it wasn't part of the cultural context in which the model was created.
So whilst the Big Five does replicate pretty well across certain cultures, it's not like
it totally fails, it's probably not the whole story. It really does miss some of the nuances
of how personality expresses itself in societies where.
values, traditions and social roles are just innately different from those in the West.
And that's really important because personality doesn't occur in isolation.
It's about how you show up in the communities and the contexts around you.
Now, for the big one, let's talk about the Myers-Briggs type indicator.
The MBTI, you've probably heard of it.
It's used in so many different contexts in workplace training, on dating apps,
It's advertised on social media.
I feel like everyone's done this.
It's the one that gives you the four-letter code.
So, ENFP, IST-J, A-I-N-F-J.
And then it also often will give you, like, the celebrities that this personality type is like,
and it will give you a name, like a label, like the architect or the commander or the peacemaker
or the protagonist.
I did mine right before recording this episode just to like remind myself of what mine was.
And I am an ENFJ, the protagonist.
So there you go.
I wanted to see if it was, it still reflected what I remembered it being before.
And it did.
So that's mine.
What we're going to do is talk about where the Myers-Briggs type indicator was developed
because it is such an interesting story.
So stay with us.
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It is one of my favorite origin stories in psychology.
It was developed actually not by a psychologist, but by a mother-daughter duo.
Catherine Cook, Briggs, and her daughter, Isabel Briggs, Myers.
Catherine was a writer, and she was really fascinated by personality.
And in the 1920s, she stumbled upon the work of Carl Jung.
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And he basically proposed that people have different personality or psychological types.
So introversion versus extroversion or thinking versus feeling.
And he introduced those to help people kind of make sense of themselves and make sense of the world.
She was so inspired by his ideas that she was.
She decided to take them and adapt them into something that was practical and accessible.
Now, during World War II, Isabel Myers-Briggs saw an opportunity.
She thought a test like this could be useful in helping women who were entering the workforce for the first time
and helped them match with jobs that suited their natural personality.
Because obviously at the time, all of the young men slash men were away at war.
and there was this huge whole left, like this huge labor demand and women filled it and a lot of them had never worked before.
So she and her mother began further developing this idea and this questionnaire that would sort people into 16 personality types based on Jung's original theory.
And they also simplified them yet again into four dichotomies.
So where you sat on these four scales would help determine, obviously, where you sat in the 16 personality types.
So we have extroversion versus introversion that is basically in every single personality test you can think of.
Sensing versus intuition.
This was basically how you take on information.
Senses often focus on what is concrete and practical and grounded in the five senses.
So the facts, the details of the here and now.
Intuitives on the other hand are more interested in patterns, abstract ideas, gut feelings.
Then we have thinking versus feeling.
This describes how you make decisions.
Thinkers prefer objectivity, consistency, and logic, whereas feelers prioritize values, empathy, and harmony.
And finally, judging versus perceiving.
This is how you approach the external world.
judges like structure, schedule, closure, perceivers prefer flexibility, keeping things spontaneous,
kind of going with the flow.
So once you figure out which category you have preferences for from each section, you combine
them and you basically get a four-letter personality type.
For example, if you were more introverted, more likely to like concrete facts, more likely
to make decisions aligned with values and had a preference for an organized life, you would be an
ISFJ.
It supposedly highlights your strengths and also your blind spots of your personality.
And so it is very specific and personal, but it's also quite general as well.
Obviously, there's only 16 and there are 7 billion people in the world.
If we did the math, like, you're going to have a couple of brothers and sisters in your pack.
like who have the same personality type as you.
So by the 1940s, this was when it really became available commercially
and really began to spread into business, education, and even dating culture.
But here is the catch.
Whilst it has become really popular, the MBTI was never actually built on any kind of rigorous
scientific testing.
Catherine and Isabel, you know, they weren't trained.
psychologist and Jung's original theory, it was much more like metaphorical and philosophical
rather than empirical. And that shaky foundation is kind of part of why the Myers-Briggs
has always been a little bit controversial in the scientific community. And that's where some of the
criticism comes in. In a lot of cases, psychologists don't take the Myers-Briggs seriously.
Studies show it has low reliability. About 50% of people will get a different result when they
retake it within weeks, that's a problem. It can't be used as an objective scientific measure.
Plus, it forces you into one category or another, even though realistically humans are a lot more
nuanced than that. So it doesn't really typically measure what it's trying to measure because it
doesn't, yeah, again, allow for flexibility. So why is it so popular? We might put this down to something
called the Barnum or Forer effect.
Barnum or Forer.
That's when vague, flattering statements feel personally accurate.
Think about your horoscope.
Your horoscope for this week might say something like,
you sometimes doubt yourself, but deep down, you know you have a unique purpose.
I'm not bashing horoscopes here.
I really enjoy them, but that kind of applies to literally everyone.
and the Myers-Briggs type descriptions are written in a similar way.
They're broad enough to fit almost anyone who sees themselves as being an extrovert,
sees themselves as being thoughtful, who has some kind of allegiance or, you know,
reason to want to be that personality type.
So of course, when you give them a piece of information that says,
you are this, and this person is capable of this,
and they're incredible at that.
Everyone's going to be like, yeah.
And if I am that, that means I'm great and I'm capable.
Here's one such statement from my results, actually.
NFJ, this was my result.
This is what it said.
Your journey of personal growth is fueled by a desire for self-improvement
and a genuine commitment to becoming the best version of yourself.
I don't know about you, but doesn't that apply to literally everyone
who has ever had a goal or wants to better them?
themselves. That's not necessarily a bad thing. You know, it resonates with people not because
it's scientifically sound, but because it helps people articulate something in themselves. That's not
terrible. But it's just important to see it more as that storytelling tool. That can be just as
valuable, but it's not necessarily scientific. You know, but though, again, if it resonates
with you and it provides you with some guidance or comfort, like I don't see the problem.
I really think it's just a lot of fun.
The issue is when we take it too seriously,
when we let those boxes contain us.
If you believe I'm an introvert, therefore I can't lead,
or I'm more neurotic, therefore I will always be anxious,
you start limiting yourself.
And these labels can become self-fulfilling prophecies.
But here's the flip side.
Used wisely, these tests give you language to describe things,
that you felt about yourself but never articulated. They also can help you identify what you
like about yourself, what you think of as an asset within you. So as we wrap up, here's my main
takeaway. Personality tests are like maps. A map is super useful. It helps you orient yourself. It
helps you see where you might be or paths forward. But if you have your head down and you're
constantly looking at the map, you are actually not going to really enjoy the scenery and enjoy your
way through life and enjoy how you can test yourself and how you may find little back roads that
the map doesn't tell you about. At the end of the day, every single person on this earth is more nuanced
than four letters. You are a constantly evolving human being. You change depending on your
environment, your experiences, your growth. That's what makes you interesting and
human. So take the tests. I think they're super, super fun. Use them to reflect, use them to connect with
other people, but don't let them limit you. That's all we have time for today. Just like my last
bonus episode, do let me know if you have other theories or topics or concepts you want me to
dive into next. As always, thank you to our research assistant, Libby Colbert, for all the effort and
work she puts in behind the scenes. We appreciate her so much. And thank you for
listening to the podcast, if you made it this far, drop your, drop your mysbriggs down below.
I want to know what everyone is. I think it would be super interesting to see if there's like a certain
pattern or a certain, a certain one that rises to the surface. Until next time, stay safe,
be kind, be gentle to yourself, and we will be back with a full-length episode on Friday. Talk to you
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In 2023, Bachelor Star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twin.
But the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax.
You doctored this particular test twice, Ms. Owens, correct?
I doctored the test once.
It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern.
Two more men who'd been through the same thing.
Greg, a lesbian.
Michael Marantini.
My mind was blown.
I'm Stephanie Young.
This is Love Trapped.
Laura, Scottsdale Police.
As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
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