All this coming week, 10News Today is exploring the world of personality tests -- and we're starting off Monday morning with one that is arguably the most well-known through the years: The ...

When Katharine Briggs — a mother and homemaker — began what she called a "cosmic laboratory of baby training" in her Michigan living room in the early 1900s, she didn't know she was laying the ...

Any good test needs to demonstrate two things. Good validity (measuring what it’s supposed to measure) and reliability (stability, so that you don’t get different scores for the same person at ...

This is all trivial fun for teenagers, of course. No one really believes that the quality of your friendships can be ranked by your Myers-Briggs personality type. And yet, thousands of companies rely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A personality test usually involves a suite of questions meant to bucket the test-taker into a category said to describe their ...

In the 2018 book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, Dr. Merve Emre explains that personality testing has become a $2 billion industry, ...

"The language of type can be immensely clarifying," says author Merve Emre. In The Personality Brokers she describes how a mother-daughter duo... How The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Began In A ...