Stuff You Should Know
Stuff You Should Know
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57 minutes Posted Nov 15, 2025 at 10:00 am.
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For millennia, we have tried to put human personalities into neat types, an effort psychology took up early in its history in an effort to legitimize itself. But is the idea of types – which all personality inventories are based on - flawed to begin with? Find out in this classic episode.

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