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Subject:	Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:45:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1017505,00.html I knew > it! Huh. Looks to me like a souped-up personality test indicating 'decisiveness'. There's $1.2m that they coulda done for free. Although granted that decisive people themsleves would be less convinced by such a study unless it had big numbers and lots of important doctors associated with it. And even then, the very reaction itself of defensiveness is a great indicator of being decisive itself, being a fear of something they didn't decide on for themselves, or something they instinctively decided on differently. Sounds rather amusingly ironic if you ask me :) DaveE

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		Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
(...) 8^) I don't give a lot of credence to interpretive personality assessments, such as psychoanalysis, palmistry, or Myers-Briggs tests, since such tests seem generally to reveal more about the expectations of the reviewers than about the actual (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
(URL) I knew it!> Dave! (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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