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The 5 Best Personality & Behavioral Assessments 2019

Have you ever taken a personality/behavioral assessment?

If you haven't, it's understandable since a majority of the personality assessments are "meh"

But here's what Quartz and 'Psychologicalscience.org' had to say about it:

Personality tests are both incredibly popular and largely bogus. BuzzFeed made its name in part by publishing quizzes telling readers which ‘90s kid they are, which Friends character they are, which Disney princess they are, and…well…which Disney princess they are, really. None of these have any scientific basis. Then there’s the somewhat more reputable Myers-Briggs test, inspired by Jungian theories about personality types. Some 2.5 million people take it every year, and 88% of Fortune 500 companies use it. Despite its reputation, however, the Myers-Briggs has poor scientific validity.

There is one personality test that is far and away more scientifically valid than any of the others: the “Big Five.”