Dating Sites That Use Myers Briggs

Attraction is an incredibly subjective matter. What entices one person bores another. What repulses you might get the next average Joe all hot and bothered. But hey, you came here to nerd out. What you do with this information is up to you. Able to hold a long, meaningful conversation on pretty much any topic with pretty much any person sparing you a lot of insufferable dinner party chit chat.

Swipe Right is our advice column that tackles the tricky world of online dating. This week: can a multiple-choice personality test help me find better matches? I recently took the Myers-Briggs MBTI personality test for the first time and have been reading about my results online. I too, recently took an MBTI test, as part of a team-building initiative at work being your online dating expert is, alas, not my only job. I found the results to be very revealing about things that I already knew about myself; it was somewhat similar to the time that I went to a psychic and she told me that I am mostly happy but have also sometimes experienced great sadness. Does the MBTI have any validity when it comes to better and worse romantic partnerships? Some people love MBTI.

You probably recognize Myers-Briggs by its signature, four-letter combinations. Myers-Briggs is one of the most popular pop psych phenomenons in history, with 2. Thing is, Myers-Briggs is kinda bullshit, and pretty useless when it comes to choosing a romantic match. Psychologist Adam Grant has criticized the test as overly rigid , as it forces people to identify as wholly introverted or extroverted, for instance, when their sociability may change depending on mood or situation.

Makes friends on Tinder. Likes conversing with new people and learning about their fellow humans. Gets into an argument with someone over political views on Tinder.