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Feb 2022
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Why your personality test results are pr...

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Kate Davis talks to Dr. Art Markman about why everyone's favorite personality test--The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator--is unreliable, especially when used in the hiring process. Art is a professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations.

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