I remember when this nonsense was new and all the rage... I took a full online test, like 200 questions, about 6 different times over about 3 months.

Turns out, the test results changed a lot depending on my current mood, recent experiences and stress level.

It baffles me that still to this day even many professionals and business people think this has any merit.

People who unironically believe in astrology are worse though. Which is a shame, because seemingly nearly everyone on a dating app of any kind is basically either a religious conservative, or a weed addicted astrology believing 'leftist'.

So did you end up marrying the purple boy?

Sure, but a lot of people have also 'heard' that mbti is not scientifically valid and go around parroting that without any knowledge of what specifically science says about it.

It is entirely possible that outside of a scientific discipline, mbti works well enough for people to use.

Kind of like how we use the term "meme" and understand what it means but the concept of memes are not used in science because other models of cultural evolution have better explanatory power.

It gutted me. I was so into the typology for about six months.

From what I can tell, it wasn't until around the turn of the century that it was widely regarded as total bunk. I know it was used in professional psychological and occupational contexts in the '90s.

I always pay attention to how people feel about either the astrology or MBTI, that does give you some helpful information about them. And if they don’t agree, that also gives some information. They’re just tools to help us understand each other or ourselves, I don’t think we have to be negative about that.

Astrology can be fine as long as you don't take it too seriously. It's not much different than a favorite color or lucky numbers.