They become dangerous tools : the dark side of personality tests Lisa Wong Macabasco
Scrolling dating apps in 2015, Tim Travers Hawkins didn’t know who his type was. He didn’t even know
what a type was. Hawkins, a British film-maker then new to New York, “noticed something that was very different to people’s profiles in the UK and that was the use of these four letters,” he said to the Guardian. Curious, he looked it up. “I was like, ‘Huh, that’s different’.”
The four letters issue from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the world’s most well-known personality quiz, which categorizes everyone into 16 distinct types gleaned from four binaries: people are either introverted or extroverted, sensing (relying on evidence from one’s senses) or intuitive, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving.
They become dangerous tools : the dark side of personality tests
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HBO Max Dives Into Personality Tests in Upcoming Documentary
HBO Max shared a preview of “
Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests,” a new documentary scheduled to premiere on March 4th. The network confirmed the premiere date with a first look trailer, which you can watch below for a quick preview.
Dorothy Street Pictures produced the project, which was commissioned by HBO Max in association with CNN Films. The documentary is directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, produced by Julia Nottingham for Dorothy Street Pictures, and executive produced and written by Mark Monroe. The documentary is informed by the book “The Personality Brokers” by Merve Emre who is also an executive producer on the project.
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March 4. The documentary dives into the United States’ obsession with personality testing and the history behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, all the while uncovering the questionable ethics of how personality tests impact our lives. One interviewee sums up the issue in the trailer, which you can watch below, as: “Personality tests are ableist, racist, sexist and classis
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