ragnarkar

Yep, that's similar to how I feel about MBTi.

One thing you need to separate out the 16 MBTI archtypes with the test(s) used to determine which type you are. Not everyone fits into one of the 16 types perfectly and not every test reliably figures out which of the 16 types you are, not to mention that dividing the entire human population into 16 types is an overly simplistic way of categorizing personalities.

That doesn't mean MBTI is useless. You can take a test and hope that it reasonably finds what type you are or you can simply read the archtypes for all 16 types and figure out which type you are closest to.

I think the community element is the most underrated aspect of MBTI, esp if you're a rare type that's been misunderstood most of your life. I can certainly related as an INTP and have struggled most of my life when taking the advice of my parents, teachers, professors, mentors, even self-help gurus only to get limited results despite following their advice almost exactly. When I learned that I was an INTP and followed the advice from other INTPs, I finally felt understood and was able to follow a different set of advice that got me much further in life than following the conventional advice from the former parties.

Is it scientific? It's debatable. Is it useful? It depends but personally, it has been tremendously helpful.

I wouldn't rely on MBTI to making hiring or other high stakes decisions. But it's not completely off base either. I've almost always tested as INTP (and occasionally INTJ) and strongly identify with the archetypes for both.

It's in the works. I privately tested it on Twitter users but it wasn't giving the results I expected (for example, classifying Trump as an INTP most likely.) It seems the general writing style on Twitter is different than Reddit which may explain it. In the worst case, I may need to build my own custom dataset scraping the Twitter profiles of known celebrities and their MBTI types from personality-database.com and train a separate model.

Of course, I may simply repurpose this same model for Twitter once the current excitement dies down (to minimize 502 errors since I'm on a cheap hosting plan.)

Yep, you've figured it out!

Lazy person with a proven work ethic. Sounds paradoxical but you don't want a lazy bum who won't get moving when things really count.

The ideal person is one who is capable and hard working when it counts but chooses not to be that way when it's unnecessary.