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    What Can A Personality Test Tell Us About Who We Are?

    The desire to find our tribe is universal. We like to know who we are and where we belong. This week, how this fascination has led to a thriving industry built on the sale of personality tests.
    by Shankar Vedantam Dec 04, 2017 2 minutes
    At the Potterverse convention in Baltimore, adults and children alike enjoy talking about their Harry Potter Hogwarts "houses" — and the houses they think their friends should be in.

    In one of the most famous scenes from the Harry Potter series, a group of kids, new to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, line up before an old and crumpled wizard's hat. It is the sorting hat. The hat will tell them which house they'll belong to during their

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