The interesting -- and somewhat alarming -- fact about the MBTI is that, despite its popularity, it has been subject to sustained criticism by professional psychologists for over three decades. One problem is that it displays what statisticians call low “test-retest reliability.” So if you retake the test after only a five-week gap, there‘s around a 50% chance that you will fall into a different personality category compared to the first time you took the test.
关于MBTI测试有一个非常有趣,也有些令人担忧的事实。那就是,尽管这种测试非常流行,但30多年来,心理学家对它的批评从未终止过。一大问题是,它显示出了一种被统计学家称为低“重测可靠度”的现象。比如说,如果你仅隔5周,再接受一次这种测试的话,你被归入一个不同于首次测试的性格类别的几率大约在50%左右。
A second criticism is that the MBTI mistakenly assumes that personality falls into mutually exclusive categories. You are either an extrovert or an introvert, but never a mix of the two. Yet most people fall somewhere in the middle. If the MBTI also measured height, you would be classified as either tall or short, even though the majority of people are within a band of medium height.
第二种批评意见是,MBTI测试错误地假设一个人的性格归属于相互排斥的类别。你要么是一个性格外向者,要么是一个性格内向者,但绝非两者的某种混合。然而,大多数人恰恰介于两者之间。要是MBTI也测量高度的话,你要么被列入“高大”,要么被列入“矮小”,尽管大多数人的个头都在中等高度区间内。
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