What data and statistics are there that show how being in a certain personality group influences how your life turns out and the worldview you choose (ex. belief system, career choice, etc.)?

Does personality stay fixed over time? Or does it change over your lifetime?

This isn't my area of expertise, but I've heard a bit of buzz about it. My best guess would be that they might try to target marketing to personality types, but the effectiveness of doing so would be mixed at best.

Personality traits are almost invariably distributed in a bell curve shape. I can't recall ever doing a statistical analysis that found two peaks in the distribution.

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We don't offer assessments for use in the hiring process for just this reason! We have an ethical objection to helping companies deny work to qualified applicants based on information in a personality test.

Do companies' marketing departments use these personality groups to try and help in marketing their products and services?

Both of those assessments are most useful as a source of self-knowledge, and are often more useful when you're in a situation where you are not being true to yourself, or have lost touch with some aspect of yourself that needs to be revisited. For instance, if you're in a job you hate but you don't know why, Myers Briggs can be really useful to help understand what aspects of yourself may not be a fit.

If you haven't found them useful, it could be that you're already in an environment that's a pretty good fit for you, so those a-ha moments aren't as necessary!

Do you lose any sleep over the fact that qualified individuals are being passed over for jobs and promotions because of the pseudoscientific bullshit you sell?

This is a common misconception that I'm glad to clear up to get things started!

People use the term "personality test" to describe a lot of things, from Buzzfeed "what pie are you" quizzes, to more popular systems like the Enneagram. But strictly speaking, a personality test is any instrument that's intended to measure individual differences. Personality assessments are used in a variety of very serious applications. Clinical psychologists use them to help diagnose mental disorders; academic psychologists use them as a basis for studies on how our traits and characteristics influence nearly everything in our lives, from lifespan to divorce rates to happiness.

So, I hope this helps to explain why it sounds very uninformed to say "all personality tests are junk science." I know what you're trying to say, but the phrasing shows a lack of understanding.

To address what I think you were trying to say, yes, there are some valid challenges to more popular personality theories like Myers Briggs and the Enneagram. One of the most valid issues with these systems is that they sort people into "types," and really, people don't actually sort neatly into types. Personality is more accurately described as traits on a spectrum, rather than types. That's why we love it when people take our Big Five assessment, which measures five major dimensions of personality, and take the time to understand what those traits mean to them.

But that doesn't mean that type assessments are useless. The human brain naturally processes things in terms of categories, and type-based systems are a lot more approachable for laypeople. So long as they have some grounding in real human variation (which all our assessments do) they can be a useful shortcut for understanding fundamental differences.

In the professional world, what would you suggest are good 'personality exploration' tools that almost every organization should use, and why? (i.e. why should I allocate time to such activities?)

And maybe a bit harder Q - again in the professional world, how can personality evaluations support JEDI principles (Justice, equity, diversity, inclusion)?

What is your personality type, and how has understanding your personality helped you in your career?

How do you feel about people losing out on job opportunities they are qualified for because of these stupid tests?

According to these personality tests, do personalities tend to fall on a Gaussian distribution centered around the mean for any given parameter, or do they separate into distinct peaks?

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I've done Enneagram and Myers-Briggs. They're entertaining and possibly informative, but I never found them useful in informing me about career path, or life choices or anything else.

How can such testing be used in a way to benefit our everyday life?

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Since all personality tests are debunked junk science, how does your company help?

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I don't think you can confidently state that there's no evidence that other banks are at risk. This was caused by increased borrowing rates, and the Fed has given a lot of indication that they'll increase those rates further to stall inflation. That can cause other banks to fail.

The risk is not 0% even if it's low.