每当我向实施MBTI测试的职业顾问、教练和培训师一一列举各类批评性研究结果时,他们总是指出,这项测试的设计宗旨并不是让人们与其理想职业实现对接。然而,他们中的许多人对大量证据视而不见,继续进行这种测试,这样做的典型原因在于,他们依然相信,它是一项性格类型指南。但我怀疑,有时候是因为MBTI测试为他们的建议披上了一层合法性。
Personality tests have their uses, even if they do not reveal any scientific truth about us. If we are in a state of confusion, they can be a great emotional comfort. They also raise interesting hypotheses that aid self-reflection: Until I took the MBTI, I had certainly never considered that IT could offer me a bright future (by the way, I apparently have the wrong personality type to be a writer).
个性测试有它自身的用途,就算它们并没有揭示出任何关于我们的科学真相。如果我们陷入一种混乱的状况,这类测试或许能够给予我们巨大的情感慰藉。它们还提出了一些有助于我们自我反省的假设:在我接受MBTI测试之前,我肯定从来没有想过IT领域会给我提供一个光明的未来(顺便说一下,我的性格类型显然不适合当一位作家)。
Yet MBTI is not a magic pill that offers a secret path to a dream job. Wise career counsellors should treat such tests with caution, using them as only one of many ways of exploring who you are. Some even take the sensible step of avoiding them altogether, recognizing that human personality does not neatly fall into 16 or any other definitive number of categories: We are far more complex creatures than psychometric tests can ever reveal.
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