The problem is that Myer-Briggs is not very scientific. In fact, it became so popular that businesses and government organizations like the CIA started using it to hire people. According to Merve Emre, writer of The Personality Brokers, the test was created by two amateur psychologists in the first half of the 20th century but really gained popularity in the 1980s. You can be extraverted or introverted, intuitive or sensing, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. This assessment gives everyone one of 16 personality types indicated by four letters, like ENFP. Unfortunately, many use an equally unscientific personality test to put people in boxes: the Myers-Briggs personality indicator. But aside from the dubious merits of sorting children into competing cliques where they’ll wiggle sticks in various attempts to murder each other, the idea that people are so easily sorted is entirely wrong.įortunately, most people do not claim that the Harry Potter houses are a legitimate way of categorizing people. The idea that there could be one of four houses of wizards just like you is oddly appealing. There is a strange pleasure in knowing exactly how you fit in the world. All of them will tell you exactly how you fit in at Hogwarts, except for one flaw: they’re all hogwash. Some will quiz you on your favorite foods and social habits, and some will ask you about personality traits. If you don’t know, there are plenty of online tests that will tell you what Harry Potter house you belong to. Are you a Gryffindor? A cunning Slytherin? A brainiac of a Ravenclaw? Or one of the sad people who doesn’t fit into the other three and gets to be a Hufflepuff?
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