Using MBTI to match college roommates

(Take a look at the comments section of this posting on insidehighered.com--the academic psychology community is *not* a fan of Myers-Briggs.)

If college freshmen knew more about their roommate’s personality type, would they be more likely to get along with one another? Some small liberal arts colleges think so and have invested in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) — a well-known personality assessment — to either match roommates or resolve conflicts between them.