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Re: The Use of Personality Assessment in Team Decisions

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I haven't read anything definitive saying that the results of that test have much validity. From what I remember (and I would love to be corrected) they are very useful for categorizing people, but not useful for extracting useful data about a person or acting as a predictive tool.
For what it's worth, I recently got ISFJ, and the description given here isn't accurate to me at all. Some of the questions such as:
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You find it difficult to introduce yourself to other people.

are way too general to get good information from. For instance, I have no difficulty introducing myself to people older than myself or in a business setting, but I'm not really big on introducing myself to people my age or just in social situations. My answers vary so widely that whatever I pick will be inaccurate.

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If someone does not respond to your e-mail quickly, you start worrying if you said something wrong.
My answer to the above should have been strong disagree because I see email as more of a business tool than a social one and am used to waiting days for any kind of email response, social or business related. I assume they want me to include things like social media messages or texting. If I did then my answer would be in the agree spectrum. I put that I agreed, hoping that I had guessed the test maker's intentions correctly.

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