{"id":135291,"date":"2020-12-28T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=135291"},"modified":"2020-12-28T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:42:05","slug":"merve-emre-how-do-personality-tests-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=135291","title":{"rendered":"Merve Emre: How do personality tests work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Merve Emre: How do personality tests work?\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/merve_emre_how_do_personality_tests_work\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that classified people&#8217;s personalities into 16 types. 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