HBO Max’s Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests explores the history and growing dangers surrounding the seemingly innocuous Myers–Briggs personality test.Created by Isabel Briggs Meyers in the early mid-20th century, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classifies participants into one of sixteen different personality types, all symbolized by four letters – from INTJ to ENFJ.
Tim Travers Hawkins’s doc takes a deep dive into how the personality test evolved from a way to self-identify into a “dangerous tool” in the hands of the powerful.“It’s being used to make decisions about who’s worthy and who’s unworthy,” an interview subject say in the trailer.The doc, which will premiere on March 4 on HBO Max, raises a slew of ethical questions
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