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Re: Is this an overreaction and a violation of rights?
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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:50:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
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> > > > What's an ENFP?
> > >
> > > http://www.recruit-china.com/Career/MBTI/ENFP
> > >
> > > You can find hundreds of descriptions on the web. This was the first
> > > which had an extensive description.
> >
> > Thank you for the link; I'd never even heard of "ENFP" before, so it was
> > all news to me. But at a quick run-through, the test seems problematic.
> > Consider these questions:
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> Oops! Disregard most of that--I looked at the wrong test. The correct one
> on that site is apparently: http://www.recruit-china.com/Career/MBTI
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> However, aside from the precise questions, the methodology seems equally
> suspect. The user is asked for a series of bafflingly simple personal
> summations, after which the test points the user to a more elaborate,
> seemingly holistic encapsulation of the user's persona. My concern remains:
> is this test actually used for anything? It seems fundamentally flawed
> except as a brief diversion, and certainly it should be used as any serious
> yardstick for plotting one's limitations and potentials. By its very nature
> the test is irretrievably subjective, and the "4 letter acronym" is a
> classic example of the aforementioned "subjective validation."
Yup. I have taken the MBTI (as well as others) on multiple occasions, and I
don't think I've ever gotten the same result twice. Extrovert vs Introvert
is a particularly bad one for me - I exhibit characteristics of both, and
different people have discribed me emphatically as one or the other.
Each individual answer I read certainly sounded like it described me. I
think that, like horoscopes, most of these "personality tests" use common
buzzwords that we recognize as "official talk" instead of vernacular and
give non-exclusive results to capture as broad a base as possible.
Or maybe I'm just weird. ;p
James
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