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The “Big Five”, “FFM” (Five Factor Model) or “OCEAN” as it’s sometimes called, is a way to measure the five personality traits. The big five is what psychologists use when determining your personality.
Big Five measures five personality traits and the first letter of them spell out the acronym “OCEAN”. These are:
Openness to experience - High openness reflects an appreciation for art, unusual ideas and adventures. This also is people who have an intellectual curiosity and creativity. These people seek out euphoric experiences. Those who score low in openness are the opposite.
Conscientiousness - The high scorers in conscientiousness are dependable and organized. They aim high and want to plan most events in advance instead of being spontaneous. The low scorers are more flexible and spontaneous.
Extraversion - The more extroverted people have more positive emotions, energy, assertiveness and tend to seek stimulation by socializing with others. Introverted (the low scorers) people are reserved and seek stimulation by doing their own thing. They are often associated with “new thinking”.
Agreeableness - If someone have an easy time being cooperative, compassionate and they trust people easily, then they are high scorers in agreeableness. If they are suspicious and competitive they are low scorers.
Neuroticism - The ones that score high in neuroticism are sensitive and experience negative emotions more easily than those who score low. These emotions are anger, depression and anxiety. They are seen as emotionally unstable. Low scorers are emotionally stable and calm.
Well now comes the controversy in the world of deduction. MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is based on the work of a brilliant psychiatrist named Carl Jung but constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. Carl Jung constructed the terms extraversion and introversion and was hugely influential in the world that is psychology. You have probably heard of, or taken the MBTI, it’s composed of 16 personalities and they look like INTP, ENTJ, ESFP and so on. Every letter symbolizes a personality trait and you are either E as for Extraversion or I for Introversion, S for Sensing or N for iNtuition, T for Thinking or F for Feeling, J for Judging or P for Perceiving. But do not mistake MBTI to be the work of Carl Jung.
Here’s the problem. MBTI doesn’t work. There are dozen of examples that prove that it isn’t reliable. If you take the test one day and get ENTJ and you take it after a few weeks then you can get ISFP which is completely different. This is possible and happens quite a lot. Then how can you trust this? Well you can’t. Your personality changes over time but it doesn’t change that much after a few weeks. And one other thing, research show that you can be both a thinker and a feeler, most thinkers actually spend a lot of time feeling. So why would you use this instead of big five? I have no idea.
Why not use astrology instead? That describes your personality and isn’t proven to work, same as MBTI? (This is sarcasm of course)
This post is not meant to anger anyone, it is just meant to educate. So with this information in mind do choose the method you want.
Sites which explain the flaws of MBTI:
http://www.businessinsider.com/myers-briggs-personality-test-is-misleading-2014-6?r=US&IR=T&IR=T
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2014/09/29/the-mysterious-popularity-of-the-meaningless-myers-briggs-mbti/#45b82b1950ad
And if you want to know how you score on the big five:
http://psychologytoday.tests.psychtests.com/take_test.php?idRegTest=1297
And with that, I’ll see you my irregulars.