What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
Q: What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
A: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a set of questions based on psychology that helps people learn about how they tend to make choices and view the world.
Q: How many groups do people get placed in after answering the questions in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
A: People are placed in one of sixteen groups based on theories by Carl Gustav Jung in his book Psychological Types (1921).
Q: Who created the first set of questions during World War II?
A: Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers created the first set of questions during World War II.
Q: What was the purpose of creating the first set of questions?
A: The set of questions was made to help women who were working for the first time to be happier and work better.
Q: When was the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that we use today created?
A: The MBTI that we use today was created in 1962.
Q: Is there a best type in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
A: No, there is no best type. The types are considered all equal.
Q: Whose theories was the sixteen-group system based on?
A: The sixteen-group system was based on theories by Carl Gustav Jung in his book Psychological Types (1921).
