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Are personality tests accurate? How were they developed, how reliable is the science behind them, and which are most respected? Most importantly: which developers of personality tests were sexy MFers and which of them wrote erotic fiction about old men? Follow along to discover the strange history behind personality tests. 

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In this episode:  

• WW1 and Shell Shock (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
• The Robert Sessions Woodworth Personal Data Sheet (WPDS)
• Carl Jung's Psychological Types
• Katherine Cook Briggs
• Isabel Briggs Meyers
• The Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• The 8 Functions
• The 16 Types
• The Forer (Barnum) Effect
• CPP (Formerly Consulting Psychologists Press)
• ENTJ, The CEO Type
• Objective vs Projective Tests
• Hermann Rorschach, Sexy Badass
• Psychodiagnostik
• Pareidolia
• The Rorschach Test
• Ink Blot Interpretation (Klecksography)
• Gobolinks
• The Five Factor Model (FFM, or the Big 5)
• Enneagram
• Type A and Type B 
• The DISC Model

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Episode Transcript

~ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND SLEEP IS OVERRATED ~