Surprise, Psychologists Catalog Personality Types Too!
September 18, 2007
But what is personality?
It is the deeply fixed, consistent, distinctive and characteristic patterns of our thoughts, feelings and behaviour that define a person’s own style of interacting with the physical and social environment.
From That’s Me–A Guide to Personality
Psychologists have been working for years to catalog personality. Check out this personality test labeled the Jung-Meyers Briggs test. In the Meyers Briggs test, people are cataloged in to one of sixteen personality types, based on their answers to multiple test questions. The difference between astrology and these psychological tests is that astrology, in the hands of a competent practitioner, can accurately describe a personality without ever asking a single question of the person in question. Tests like Meyers Briggs ask questions and give a result. Furthermore, there is a lack of consensus in the world or psychology on personality types. Different methods give different results. Such as:
What’s Your Career Personality. In this article it states:
“People seem to function better and achieve greater satisfaction in work environments that are a good fit for their personality.”
and recommends you figure out your career type from the descriptions provided.
Its seems to me disingenuous that some scientists decry the cataloguing of personalities into the twelve archetypes of the zodiac, then remain perfectly moot on the idea that a test is going to separate a human being into one of several types based on a testing model or generalized descriptions of human activity. Is thousands of years of observations less valuable than a test developed in the the last hundred years? But then, those are the paradoxes we live with on this ball of mud, isn’t it?
astrology, zodiac, personality, personality types, personality tests
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