horace_majeur 's review for:

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre

3.0

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Layers of horror to be found. First, That a test a step or two from 'Which Simpsons character are you?' is widely accepted in business and used for life-affecting institutional decisions. Second, that it was created by a crackpot Jung super-fan who, generously*, was an autodidact with no credentials.

(* from a time when there were scant credentials, to be fair)