Are Psychometric/personality Tests More Accurate In A Direct Proportion With Users Life Experience?

[jakub_friso]

Its a bit complicated question but let me explain... If somebody wants to gain massive self awareness about ones own values, strengths and so on... The personality, psychometric tests and other tools that help you to know more about yourself - these things are great for gaining this kind of knowledge about yourself.

And I'm personally using these tools to decide what I want to do in life. But I don't know if I want to go more on these theoretical tests first and than go for actual work experience later or vice versa, or do both at a same time...

What is basically my question: Are personality and psychometric tests accurate in a direct proportion to a persons amount of life experience? Because I see these psychology tools as a compass, a guide to help you sort out and make sense of who you are and who not, but if during the testing you are not even able to provide experience, some data from your personal life - than they may be inaccurate or even false. You take them few months forward and they will be totally different because when they for example ask you if you prefer technology or arts, you are not even able to tell yourself or you truly prefer technology, but you think arts because you don't know and experienced other side of the coin.

Take this hypothesis that we take a teenager who his entire life lived in incubator - how accurate and helpful would be these tool?

Thanks for your responses, I hope I explained myself at least a bit clearly.

 

[Dan Arnautu]

@jakub_friso I practically made a 360 degree change in all areas of my life since 3-4 years ago. And these kind of changes were made from year to year, not from 4 years ago till now. I've remained an INFJ (from the Myers Briggs Personality Test) throughout all of this transition. So, I could say that it is pretty accurate regardless of your life situation. 

Edited May 30, 2017 by Dan Arnautu