The indicator is the world's #1 psychological personality inventory.
It is accurate and reliable. It is fine-tuned. It is credible. It is used by well over three million people a year to identify and learn about their psychological type, and that of others. The version we use at TypeQuest is the latest version. It is fully copyrighted. It can legally be obtained and administered only by qualified facilitators.
We urge you to be extremely wary of websites that let you "do the MBTI" online. They are almost certainly not authorized to do so. And simply filling in an MBTI questionnaire and getting "instant results", without trained explanation and help, is a real minefield. You can easily finish up with incomplete, misleading and potentially damaging
-information.
Using psychological type to predict behaviour — or to predict success or failure, or to slot people into jobs — is unwise, unfair, and dangerous. TypeQuest has turned down contracts from employers who asked it to do these things. We urge you to be wary of people who speak of using MBTI for these purposes.
Experts in psychological measurement (a field called psychometrics) have analyzed the MBTI and tested the results, repeatedly. They have measured its over-all reliability at 80-85%. Believe us: That is very good indeed for a psychological instrument.
No psychological instrument is perfect, however. The MBTI, like any other tool, is subject to error. In the end, and above all:
You are the best judge of your true type. You are the decision-maker in our TypeQuest workshops, not the MBTI questionnaire.
You may look at how you come out on the MBTI when you do it with us, and say: "Yes, that's me, all right; that's my type." But some of you may say: "I don't think that
is really me. The MBTI didn't get the
real me."
If that happens to you, you'll almost certainly be able to find, by the end of the workshop and discussion, what strikes you as a better and truer "fit" of type. And that's as it should be:
You are the best judge of your true type. Do not let us, or anybody else,
tell you what type you are.
You decide how accurate the MBTI report is for you.
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The "real you"
There are good reasons why the MBTI may not quite capture the "real you" right away.
For one thing, psychological measurement and evaluation is not a precise science. For another, stress or change or other things going on in your life may affect the way you fill in the MBTI form. It's best filled in when you are relaxed, and going "with your natural grain". Our workshops will help you get there!
Some people, also, find it quite hard to accept that the MBTI is
not a test. They suspect that there
must somehow be a "right answer" to each question. The more they sweat over that, the more danger there is that the results will not reflect their true type. Worse, some people even try to "cook the books", trying to make the Indicator come out the way they want. That's a pointless waste of time, of course, as it leaves them still at Square One and leads to no learning and no progress.
In our TypeQuest workshops, the MBTI will let
you determine your reported psychological type. From there we will go on to look at characteristics often associated with each type. Each of the 16 types we will explore has definite strengths, and contributions to make.
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