I don’t stress about it per say, but am often annoyed when people disregard the accuracy of MBTI because they got the wrong result and then go forth dispensing advice to people that match with their incorrect result acting like an expert on their (incorrect) type. Please forgive my brain injury, I have a limited language abilities… a lot of time, I don’t know about other people, but I like to vent to someone who can ACTUALLY relate so when an impostor whether on purpose or not tries to be that person I’m venting to dispenses advice, their words can come off as brash or dismissive of my experience. Hurtful I guess you could say. I’m hardly sensitive to the extreme, however I’m very perceptive of when I can just tell someone doesn’t get it but is trying to come off as though they do get it… does that make sense… sheesh I feel stupid, lol
I doubt what motivates people to dismiss the validity of types is getting the wrong result. You can always get the right result with enough attempts, lol.
The problem is a complex one. Certainly
tests have no validity, yet they're probably the tool most people use overall. So it could be that most people are mistyped. But in relation to what valid criterion? I suppose the criterion of the precise description of the cognitive functions detailed in e.g. Jung's
Psychological Types. This is the book where the core concepts are articulated. No doubt they could do with an update, it's been 100 years since the book was published after all, but it seems to me that the basic typological classification is still correct.
However, very few people have actually read
Psychological Types because it's a long and demanding work. Which suggests that most people's interest in personality types is not one of clarity of objective understanding. It's something more personal, more subjective, a platform for various types of self-exploration. I think it can also be seen as people experimenting with understandings of who they are. It's a process. Everyone of us will understand themselves better in a year's time, regardless of whether we think we are 'correctly typed' or not.
Sure, there are influential youtubers who may be mistyped and may therefore propagate the mistyping among their audience. But supposing they were correctly typed, would that really change anything? If the core of people's interest in personality types is not clarity of objective understanding but something more personal and self-exploratory, I doubt it. It has to be humbly admitted that only a small minority of the population values objective accuracy. It's not that the others are too dumb to do the same, it's that their values are oriented differently.
The most we can do is engage critically with dubious new models of personality, not with people's self-typings, in my opinion. Leave the individual people alone and critique MBTI, C.S. Joseph, Objective Personality, Vultology, and so on. There's
plenty of work to do on that front, and it's vastly more important, as well as better targeted, than focusing on individuals with different value orientations.
