The Problem With Those 9 Personality Types

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The Enneagram, like many personality tests, isn't well backed-up by scientific research, but its popularity in spite of that can give us a window into how the human mind works. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/how-the-enneagram-system-works/ https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions/ https://www.enneagramworldwide.com/tour-the-nine-types/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289724121_The_Riso-Hudson_Enneagram_Type_Indicator_Estimates_of_Reliability_and_Validity https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/583471/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237312001442 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0826177697 https://www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/why-do-we-need-personality-tests-tell-us-who-we-ncna914371 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/presence-mind/201801/looking-self-knowledge-in-all-the-wrong-places https://taylorlab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/10/1994_Positive-Illusions-and-Well-Being-Revisited_Separating-Fact-from-Fiction.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00970.x https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265161.2013.776130?journalCode=uajb20


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