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Kerwin, MBA, NCC MBTI® Master Practitioner  \nAs you use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment in your work, you’ll undoubtedly encounter participants who have “read an article online” that criticizes the MBTI assessment, and who will then question the assessment and its utility. The purpose of this paper is to help you answer those questions by addressing some of the most common criticisms and misconceptions about the MBTI assessment.  \nA LOOK BACK  \nIn order to address the criticisms and misconceptions of the MBTI assessment, it’s helpful to understand the development of the assessment over time.  \nThe MBTI assessment has a history spanning more than 75 years, and for more than 40 years has been available for use and application by organizations, educational institutions, government agencies, MBTI practitioners, and individuals in order to understand and make constructive use of personality type differences. Today, the MBTI assessment is used in 115 countries, is available in 29 languages, has been used by 88 of the Fortune 100 within the past five years, and is taken by millions of people worldwide.  \nThe creation of today’s MBTI assessment is a complex and thorough endeavor: carefully developing items, gathering representative samples on which to test those items, analyzing items to ensure that they work for diverse samples of people, testing data for statistical integrity, and more. But the origin of the MBTI assessment stems from the work of Katharine Briggs (1875–1968), a lifelong writer and student of character analysis. Largely from reading biographies and studying the personalities of their subjects, Briggs created a framework for understanding personality type and developed her own system of typology around the time of World War I.1  \nIn 1923, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung published his seminal work on personality types, Psychological Types, in English.2 Jung, long considered one of the founders of modern-day psychology, proposed a theory of personality types derived from his observations and research. After reading and studying Jung’s work, Briggs realized that it closely resembled her own framework but was much more developed. Briggs subsequently abandoned her framework and focused more fully on Jung’s theory of psychological types.  \nCreating Clarity: Addressing Misconceptions About the MBTI® Assessment | Page 1  \nDuring World War II, Briggs’s daughter Isabel Myers (1897–1980), long an admirer of her mother’s work, became interested in finding a way of making practical use of personality differences and thus began her quest to create a personality indicator. In 1943, the first version of the MBTI assessment was developed.3 Over the next decade, Myers continued to test forms of the assessment on over 5,000 medical students and 10,000 nurses.4 In 1957, Myers reached an agreement with Educational Testing Services (ETS) to publish the MBTI assessment for research purposes. In 1962, ETS published an updated form of the MBTI assessment and accompanying manual, again, primarily for research purposes.5  \nIn 1975, Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc. (now CPP, Inc.), began publishing the MBTI assessment for practical use and application. Below is a timeline of the forms of the MBTI assessment published by CPP, Inc.  \n1977: CPP releases the original commercial version of the MBTI assessment, Form G.  \n1998: CPP releases the current version of the MBTI assessment, Form M. Form M was created using item response theory to test and score items, and tested those items on a United States representative sample reflecting the most recent national US census relative to age, gender, and ethnicity.  \n2001: CPP releases the MBTI Step II™ assessment to provide additional information about 20 facets of personality.  \n2018: CPP releases an international revision of the MBTI assessment to replace Form M. The items on the inter","cbCais7TMZTzf4t8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais7TMZTzf4t8","pdf",111873,"English","# A Look Back\n## Development and adoption history\n## Publication timeline of MBTI forms\n# Common Criticisms and Misconceptions\n## “Briggs and Myers weren’t psychologists”","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this paper?\",\"answer\":\"It helps practitioners answer questions by addressing common criticisms and misconceptions about the MBTI® assessment.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the MBTI® assessment develop historically?\",\"answer\":\"The paper traces its roots from Katharine Briggs’s work and Carl Jung’s personality types, then follows publication milestones across multiple MBTI forms and revisions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper respond to the misconception that Briggs and Myers weren’t psychologists?\",\"answer\":\"It acknowledges neither Briggs nor Myers was a psychologist, while explaining that the MBTI® is based on Carl Jung’s psychological framework and that both studied Jung’s theory to build the assessment.\"}]","CPP WHITE PAPER - CREATING CLARITY: ADDRESSING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE MBTI® ASSESSMENT | PDF",25]