Information about personality tests
You are welcome to complete the questionnaire at this website. Please note, however, the following information that is true of ALL personality tests:- The results of all personality tests can be wrong, because personality is incredibly difficult to measure. For example, Isabel Briggs Myers estimated that her Myers Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire was wrong in 25% of cases. Some studies estimate the error to be much higher.
- Many personality tests in professional use are supported by "validity" and "reliability" statistics. These statistics assess whether a test measures what it claims to measure, and how well it measures it.
In short, that means these statistics provide an indication of how often a personality test tends to be wrong. However, there is no personality test that has 100% validity so, although the results of this questionnaire can suggest what your personality type might be, ultimately the decision is yours to make. - It is easy to jump to the wrong conclusions when looking at the results of personality tests. For example, if all the members of a team report as Extravert, it may seem logical to suggest that the team needs to recruit some Introverts. This would be a mistake for a number of reasons (e.g.: because of the difference between preference and skill, or the pigeon-holing of people's behaviour).
Because of these types of mistakes, many countries restrict the use of personality tests to qualified practitioners. You can avoid many of these mistakes if the questionnaire is limited to your own personal only. Do not use the information, under any circumstances, to make judgements about others.
The questionnaire at this website, the MMDI, provides a percentage match for each type, to show how close your responses are to each of the 16 Myers Briggs personality types. So, if you don't think the highest scoring result is correct, you can consider the second-highest scoring, or the third, and so on.