| Personality testing -- is it any use? | | Date Created: Nov 24, 2004, 11:01 PM |
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| Lots of people love personality tests -- like the Myers-Briggs. I loved it back in Mrs Weissburger's Intro to Psych class. And Christians love it even today. It's a chance to say without worry: "Oh, I'm INTF and she's ESFP, do you think we stand a chance?" instead of "Oh, I'm Aquarius and she's Cancer...." |
| A new article by Malcolm Gladwell explores the optimism about and the disappointments of actually trying to use personality tests to find out something useful. |
| "It's not surprising, then, that the Myers-Briggs has a large problem with consistency: according to some studies, more than half of those who take the test a second time end up with a different score than when they took it the first time." -- Malcolm Gladwell |
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