Personality tests can still be valuable because they provide an opportunity to assess oneself in comparison to the perspectives of others.
“I don't think that means they're useless I think it's valuable to assess yourself in comparison to other people's perspectives and I think that's essentially what you're doing when you take a personality test you're using someone else's lens of what makes up a human what what you are or could be and”
Distractible Podcast · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 79K views on this topicPersonality test results can be interpreted to fit anyone if they are phrased in a certain way, similar to how horoscopes function.
“I feel like if you say any order of words you could apply to yourself in one way or another that's true”
Distractible Podcast · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 79K views on this topicGeneral labels from personality tests are likely not very helpful because human beings possess too much nuance regarding their experiences and upbringing.
“I think there's too much Nuance to ourselves our upbringing and our experiences to be able to just slap a label on that applies to all I think we all also have our moments where we fit into different personality types like we have things where we break out of our shell a little bit and we differ fro”
Distractible Podcast · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 79K views on this topicPersonality tests are scientifically faulty to at least some degree and should not be used for high-stakes decisions like hiring or firing.
“It turns out that the vast majority of them, maybe all of them, are scientifically faulty to at least some degree, and some of them are just outright made up. This can be a real problem if they're being used to diagnose you with a mental illness or hire or fire you or put you in jail.”
Stuff You Should Know · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 12K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.