Are Personality Tests Actually Useful?
Ask Erin Mantz why she loves personality tests, and she鈥檒l tell you she鈥檚 a Pisces, an only child, and an introvert prone to self-reflection. 鈥淚鈥檓 constantly craving and searching for insights into why I do what I do, and what makes me tick,鈥 she says. Since discovering them at her college career center, she鈥檚 taken many different kinds, but the most transformative was the one she took with her coworkers at AOL in her 30s. A new manager instructed Mantz and her colleagues to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, which revealed she鈥檚 an INFJ: intuitive, enthusiastic, impulsive, and prone to improvisation.