Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. But its creator, Isabel Briggs Meyers, remains shrouded in mystery. Is the test a joke? A scam? Every six months or so a reputable news source publishes what it takes to be a devastating critique of the type indicator. The skeptics who write these pieces tend to repeat the same arguments. They say the instrument is unreliable, that people often get different results when they take it from one week to the next. They deride the test’s origins as the hobby of two untrained women, even though they seem to have only the faintest sense for what its history really is.

Sometimes, Digg produces some really great pieces — and this is one of our best. Please read, and pass on to anyone who might not know about the racist, sexist, history behind a test used by so many, many organizations to this day.

This is the oldest known complete set of playing cards 

There are four suits, each consisting of a king, a queen, a knave, and ten pip cards. The suit symbols, based on equipment associated with the hunt, are hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and game nooses.

*Cough cough

How Officials Tried to Censor One of the Biggest Stories in the World (via The Atlantic)

When Germany surrendered in World War II, military leaders told reporters to keep it a secret. They might have been successful, too, if not for one rogue journalist.

A Political History of “How I Met Your Mother” (via Mother Jones)

How I Met Your Mother is not, nor has it ever been, a political show. It's about Ted Mosby, Marshall Eriksen, Lily Aldrin, Robin Scherbatsky, and Barney Stinson doing funny, touching, and crazy things in New York City. But the CBS sitcom (which concludes its ninth and final season on Monday night) has, over its eight-plus years on the air, snuck in some political and social commentary ever so slyly and gently into the background