The Myers Briggs is akin to the "fun what's your personality type quizzes on Facebook".
There's really zero evidence the Myers Briggs has any type of test validity or reliability which is why in psychology we don't use it for actual psychological assessments. I don't know much of the Five Factor Model but sounds like more evidence is needed on that one as well.
What's really scary is that I heard on NPR that some employers' HR departments have taken to using the Myers Briggs to "assess goodness of fit in an organization based on personality type." While there's certainly something to be said about how different people handle different environments, interactions, situations, etc...I'm not sure we want untrained people administering "personality assessments with zero reliability/validity" to determine whether or not you should get the job. That seems like a step down a slippery slope for sure.
Of course there are personality types, specific traits correlated with various types and so forth, but there are empirically supported and valid/reliable assessment tools that can help trained professionals make inferences and interpretations based on results that are normed for different demographics like age groups, levels of education, etc based on large sample sizes of the test results of thousands of test administrations when the tests are developed . Which helps determine which items/questions have statistically significant results in correlating responses to interpretations. (There's much more to it but I don't design the tests, just use them!).
Sure I get that this post is likely for fun and it's interesting to speculate which personalities might be best suited for poker (after all we know ourselves as poker players that individual traits such as patience, discipline, persistence, and self-awareness are all key traits of successful players). But as someone who has administered, scored, and interpreted hundreds of various psychological assessment measures that do have evidence of accuracy, reliability, validity in my continued training to becoming a clinical psychologist, I often feel the need to call out these "pseudo tests" as the "results not to be used for anything serious" silly quizzes they are.
And yes I have noticed my training and skills in psychology have helped me at the tables both online and live...especially in regards to mental game work, tilt control, discipline, awareness, and yes sometimes slightly in detecting tells or understanding human tendencies when gambling...but those last two sadly aren't the biggest areas that psychology has helped my poker game in. But if non-poker players ask if psychology gives me an edge...I tell them I can read not only the table but the entire poker room on tells! Makes for good cocktail party conversations...
I'll see myself out now.
Last edited by JeeeroyLenkins; 07-17-2018 at 01:41 AM.