- Maslow’s Hierarchy - your fundamental needs explained
- Briggs Myers - your personality spectrum and compatibility
- Exercise - hormonal balance and depression management
- Relationships - building and managing addictions
- Mental Health - it’s a disorder when you can’t see and address the problem yourself
A basic discussion of the endocrine system, how it affects you psychologically, and how you’re supposed to use it properly.
Briggs Myers - your personality spectrum and compatibility
I wouldn’t put any faith in this one. There isn’t even enough science in it to call it “junk science”. Its straight up pseudoscience.
Look up the history of this. In 1917 Briggs was a stay-at-home mom with no formal training in any kind of science or psychology. She devised the whole MTBI thing by simply observing her daughter grow up. The daughter is the Myers. After she grew up mom and daughter started selling books and tests for MTBI.
“neither Myers nor Briggs were formally educated in the discipline of psychology, and both were self-taught in the field of psychometric testing.[20]”
Most personality traits do show a normal distribution of scores from low to high, with about 15% of people at the low end, about 15% at the high end and the majority of people in the middle ranges. But in order for the MBTI to be scored, a cut-off line is used at the middle of each scale and all those scoring below the line are classified as a low type and those scoring above the line are given the opposite type. Thus, psychometric assessment research fails to support the concept of type, but rather shows that most people lie near the middle of a continuous curve.
It is still used in more complicated variations. It is an easy tool to gage and understand some differences. I find it useful because I am well outside of the 15% range on Introversion Thinking and Intuition. It has been that way for me since the first time I took the test as part of TCAP in the 90’s when I was in 3rd grade. A lot of the problem is when type is not viewed as an evolving spectrum. The variations that are presently used, do a poor job of making themselves approachable and useful to the average person. Something is better than nothing, and it is just as easy to misquote the context of criticism. If ultimate accuracy is necessary at every level of education, everything learned in primary school is pretty much wrong. Foundations are needed, and that is why I said “spectrum.”
Great start.
For the prologue: “The pirates code be more like guidelines.” Your experience won’t perfectly match everything that follows, and that’s okay.
Something other than Briggs Meyers, as it’s unreproducible bunk from non-experts. Not sure there’s much in the way of accurate personality assessments outside of a clinical environment.
Variations of Briggs Meyers are still a primary tool and part of most legal systems. Like after disability that involved a near death head injury, there was a variation on the B/M when I did my day long clinical eval. Most people misunderstand that it is a spectrum and not intended to have precision. If your spectrum is not well defined, the results may vary, and personalities evolve with time. It is still a good tool to understand how you may or may not be compatible with others, and help create awareness about how best to learn.
Interesting, some of the variations might give valid results, but neither Meyers nor Briggs were qualified in any psychological capacity. As they presented it, and most often encountered today, it is an on/off system. I do like the spectrum idea and would like to see how that is implemented, as co-occuring traits are incompatible with the traditional MBTI results. I did find Kiersey to have some value (author of Please Understand Me), but I do find it odd that useful measures have been built on such a shaky foundation.
I’m not sure what place would be appropriate in a legal system for a personality test, though. MMPI could be useful, but not MBTI.
I didn’t note the exact system used. I typically score high on intuitive and I know when I am taking a test that is thoroughly testing my intuitive spectrum. When I asked if it was a MBTI, I was told it was a variation, but I do not recall which. The test I did was thorough and nearly 8 hours long for court. They did a similar test near the beginning and end. I assume it was assessing consistency across that timespan. The psychologist was a proper PhD and the whole affair was several thousand dollars and very professional for a million dollar case.
Surely not Maslow or MB, both have so many exception’s and so little real science behind them they just aren’t really useful things for the majority of people.
Show me anything that is remotely approachable to the average person and I’ll gladly revise and read them myself. Reality may be more complicated than these, but so was everything you learned in primary school. Foundations and accessibility are fundamentally important for actually helping people. These tools helped me quite a bit when I needed it.
Misconceptions and biases - all the shortcuts your brain takes that may trick you
My students never read something they don’t need to know immediately - and those are the good ones. The bad ones expect someone else to have read it!
I think there is a basic misunderstanding of human nature here: the manual needs to just have numbers to call when things go wrong! Part of being an adult is realising that everything is just damage control _
