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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test launched.

Date: 1943

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The test was created by Katherine Briggs as a tool to help understand her children in 1901. The test has no basis in psychology or any other form of science, and some of its questions have been shown to rely on racist, classist, and ableist ideas.

Many firms still use the test to assess employees, even though the company that produces it has put out statements saying that it should not be used in this way.