BY CAROL TAVRIS
EVERY FEW YEARS, ANOTHER INTREPID, well-informed journalist writes an exposé of the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator (MBPI). Malcolm Gladwell took a shot at it in 2004 in the New Yorker.1 Eleven years later, Vox ran its incarnation of this eternal story, by Joseph Stromberg and Estelle Caswell, with a headline that could not have been clearer: “Why the Myers-Briggs Test is Totally Meaningless.”2 In case anyone missed the headline, pull-outs in the story emphasized the point: