We Re All Schizophrenic Analysis

We’re all Schizophrenic
P.T. Barnum was an American Showman. Now the trick he was most famous for was fortune telling. He could look anyone in the eye and read their personality. His abilities were not unlike the personality tests of today. The difference is that these test reinforce stereotypes about people that are harmful and limiting.
Now, back to Mr. Barnum. You're probably still wondering how his fortune tellings seemed so accurate. His trick was to be ambiguous and to describe human traits, for example,"Nobody understands you,"or,"You are a nice person." Whether or not both of those are true about the person was something Barnum never knew. But, what he knew was that people hate to deny good things about themselves.
Bertram Forer was

. Every year, 2 million people take the test. In the corporate world, the test is seen as a very accurate way to predict job outcomes, but not by psychologists. In the words of Adam Grant, a psychologist at University of Pennsylvania,”The characteristics measured by the test have almost no predictive power on how happy you'll be in a situation, how you'll perform at your job, or how happy you'll be in your marriage.(Casswell)"
Even though the test is widely used by companies, they did not create it.
The Principles of the MBTI were conceptualized by a Swiss psychologist named Carl Jung. When Carl Jung studied psychology, it was an undeveloped field. He did not use the scientific method to test his theories nor did he have any peers to review his work.
Jung organized personality traits into 4 different categories, each including 2 different types. For each of these categories, people are labled as one way or the other. There was no place in between. One thing Jung made clear was that every individual was an exception to the rules. Of course, Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs forgot this

We don’t need to seperate ourselves into categories to make society function. Race, gender, age and religion already do that too much. Our society should focus on uniting people regardless of their traits and values, not stereotyping them.

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