The Problem with Personality Typing

mbtitime
2 min readApr 9, 2021

I think this is old news, but still, comes with every meme, video, account, or post comes the propensity for a certain level of bias towards certain types.

Not entirely sure how to start this, but it’s been in the back of my mind for a while. Humans are most often enslaved to something — whether ideals, idols, or ideas.

We are subject to our own biases, prone to generalization, or worse, hypergeneralization. Oh you know, how one, two, three bad experience with one leaves a bad impression, sometimes enough to discredit or close doors to some one or some thing.

Personality typology doesn’t come without it flaws, already subject to criticism due to due lack of it “empirical data or research” as others would say, while to the rest of us who use it to know more about others — it becomes a way to create a new set of biases or contempt.

Ah yes, intuitives are better than sensors (according to intutives who relish in the fruits of the labor of the sensors), ah yes, people have a disdain towards Fi users for their “emotionality” and yet, worship the products produced by them, in film, design, anime, literature, medical services, counseling, etc.

People are quick to dismiss and water down each type and each cognitive function, as though that’s the entirety of a person, the stereotypes sometimes are proven to be dangerous, it’s harmful because people are labeled like soup cans and nothing more.

It’s ridiculous because even if something was intended to be good can easily be corrupted in the hands of the very people who sought to be understood.

This is incoherent and raw, I’m just babbling.

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mbtitime

I’m that awkward moment between your birth and death. Just a normie with a hobby. #INFP