opinions on the Myer-briggs (MBTI) personality test

Well-described but very unreliable.

Yeah, bit of fun but like you say it's pseudoscience at best really. About as specific and reliable as a horoscope with loose behavioural traits that could reasonably describe anyone, especially if you answered lots of prerequisite questions so they could hone in on something less generic but still reasonably generic. A good test is to look as objectively as you can at other personality type's descriptions, do you feel some or most of it could apply to you too? If so, it's probably not very reliable.

I'm apparently an INFJ, but yeah - certainly don't live my life by it.

i remember when i was 16 i was literally so obsessed with mbti to the point where i studied the function pairs and enneagrams and i would literally assign every single person i knew irl and on shows an mbti. when it came to shows i would have some sort of game where i would guess their mbti based off of "dominant" and "inferior" function pairs as well as the enneagram and then i went on the personality database website to check if i was "correct" (by that i mean that the users on the website would create a profile for that character and assign them the exact same thing that i said). it was fun but i realised it was kind of weird after some time. and, its also kind of not true at all

also there are a lot of 'mistyped' people. especially when it comes to intj. like ik a friend who said he was intj but he was the most isfj person i have ever met, and isfj has completely different functions to intj. overall it can be cute and fun but the people that take it seriously and see it more than a joke are embarrassing

After doing multiple online tests myself, my socials started to get flooded with an amalgam of 'mbti' pages consisting of memes, artwork, or just people who use their result to find people similar to them in one way or another. At uni, I've been asked which type I am a few times, prompting me to think whether this is seen as a legitimate way of finding out more about yourself or someone else, or whether this is the new 'zodiac' of personality types. Personally, I think it's a bit of fun and slightly useful at developing intrapersonal intelligence, but it shouldn't really be taken too seriously.

What do people think of the MBTI? Generally curious, that's all.

After doing multiple online tests myself, my socials started to get flooded with an amalgam of 'mbti' pages consisting of memes, artwork, or just people who use their result to find people similar to them in one way or another. At uni, I've been asked which type I am a few times, prompting me to think whether this is seen as a legitimate way of finding out more about yourself or someone else, or whether this is the new 'zodiac' of personality types. Personally, I think it's a bit of fun and slightly useful at developing intrapersonal intelligence, but it shouldn't really be taken too seriously.

What do people think of the MBTI? Generally curious, that's all.

i'm an ISFP 4w3 486 and strangely i do find it entirely accurate. i think it can be quite accurate if u do research into it and actually work it out properly for urself, tests online r unreliable (i always get INTP but i am most definitely ISFP). however in the grand scheme of things i think it's wrong to just put people in boxes like that. society is so obsessed with labelling and categorising everything all the time. overall i agree, it's good to use to understand urself on the basis u do it correctly and can be fun, but it's rlly not that deep