While catching up on Cecil Adams’s The Straight Dope column recently, I found his explanation why the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is so damn famous and so damn useless.
Does the Myers-Briggs personality assessment really tell you anything?
The eHarmony Personality Profile (regular or Premium) uses the older Five Factor Model, not the MBTI.
(Cecil Adams’s nationally-syndicated column “The Straight Dope” answers reader-submitted questions about arcane and unusual topics. The column has been syndicated in 30 newspapers since 1973.)
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Christine Brodigan (@tenaciouscb), online user-experience product designer, shows her hate of those early-morning “new match notifications”.
Match, Chemistry and a handful of others never shocked me with their emails (some of the usernames that men choose did). However, eHarmony stood out of the crowd for a few reasons:
- rapid-fire morning messages, usually between 4 and 8 in a row (like I was under fire from the “matchmaking tool”)
- radically different branded email templates
- really bad subject lines, all different, but with the same purpose
Beginning January 4, 2010, my inbox filled with an even more challenging set of differing subject lines. More challenging because the messaging was all over the place. Was I a user more interested in “activities,” “spark,” “unique,” “common,” or greatness? I felt like it was eHarmony having the problem ordering off a menu of men and not me. I wanted simple and given to me straight up.
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It was all worth the wait for OkCupid members. The new OkCupid iPhone App (review by reader Dave Evans) brings a lot of the site’s essential functions to the device.
- Mail and messaging
- Member search
- Take and upload photos from the iPhone
- “Who has viewed me” list
- OkCupid’s never-ending “Improve matches” quiz
OkCupid focused on the feature set that members will most often use while on the go. The app is a free download from the Apple App Store.
When Match.com’s iPhone app came out six months ago, SingleGuyInNC said that eHarmony, with its drawn-out Guided Communication process and where members cannot search for people that are nearby and “available”, will never really work as a mobile app. Do you agree with him?
(Republished in entirety with permission from johnsmith3487, dated October 7, 2009. Thanks, John!)
Dafearon wrote:
johnsmith3487 wrote,
“I don’t understand why there is so little activity among my matches. … Did I give eHarmony $100 to match me up with a bunch of people that I’ll never be able to talk to?”
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Hello,
I have been talking to this young lady for about 30 days now . When and how should I move the relationship along? I am digging her like I was a undertaker.
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The Myers-Briggs personality test is only an obsolete ipsative test, like the other famous ipsative test DISC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment The Big5 inventory / Five Factor Model is a normative test, as the 16PF5. http: …
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