Is the Enneagram legitimate?

The website Statistical Solutions reported that The Enneagram Institute’s Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI) is 72 percent accurate, which is a pretty high score for this type of test. “Studies concluded the instrument as scientifically ‘valid and reliable’ as a test instrument with ‘solid psychometrics.

What is wrong with the Enneagram test?

The problem with the enneagram test—especially with its increasing popularity within Christian circles—is that people have developed type-based self-images. People use the test to define themselves with numbers—I am an eight or a three, wing two.

Are personality tests bogus?

Most of personality tests we use are completely useless. Not all of them, but the ones that sort you into a personality type, or letter, or number, are completely meaningless. They’re of dubious origin, dubious methodology, and yet we still use them time and time again.

Why is MBTI totally meaningless?

The Myers-Briggs provides inconsistent, inaccurate results Research has found that as many as 50 percent of people arrive at a different result the second time they take a test, even if it’s just five weeks later. That’s because the traits it aims to measure aren’t the ones that are consistently different among people.

Is MBTI a junk science?

Type-based personality tests like Myers-Briggs, DISC, and Enneagram are junk science. There is no such thing as a personality “type.” That’s a gross oversimplification and stereotype that leads to mindlessness, both about yourself and other people.

Has Myers Briggs been debunked?

The truth is that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is no less valid or reliable than other personality tests. Nonetheless, rumors persist that the test is wholly unreliable and is not based on research. It has been difficult to locate where or how skepticism around the MBTI began.