![]() ![]() If it's not Hogwarts houses, then it's whether we are night people or morning people, dog people or cat people, Aquarius or Leo.” Both the MBTI and astrology do just that–they help us find our tribes.īesides serving similar functions, both the MBTI and astrology have earned similar skepticism. The podcast Hidden Brain put it best in their episode “ The Sorting Hat,” when host Shankar Vedantam said, “The desire to find our tribe is universal. ![]() There’s something similar about the MBTI and astrology. This surge of emotion in reaction to a short tweet is proof of the final element that makes it so well-constructed–once you cut away all the noise, all the people arguing and the opinions being shared, there’s something that remains and rings true. People were defending the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and insulting astrology, and vice versa, all while using similar words and explanations to defend their points of view. It’s funny while also biting, it’s concise, it critiques two things that are held dearly by the people who abide by them, and those two groups of people are very different, which ensures drama. ![]()
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