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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 21:10:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton wrote: > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1017505,00.html > Huh. Looks to me like a souped-up personality test indicating 'decisiveness'. > There's $1.2m that they coulda done for free. 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 psyches of the test subjects. Still, it amuses me greaty, and $1.2M is a pittance compared to the billions being thrown into Iraq (and elsewhere!). > 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. Here's a question for the gallery... In an argument, how does one refute this claim: "You're being defensive." Consider: If you deny it, then you're confirming it (all the moreso if you refute it with evidence!). But if you agree to it (why, yes, I *am* defensive), then you confirm it, too! Dave!

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		Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
(...) Heh, I guess I'd agree about the spin they put on the write-up. After all, see how I called it "decisiveness"? You can take "decisive" either positively or negatively. Up to you as the reader. But "fear", "aggression", and "intolerance"? Those (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
(...) By being offensive. Have you stopped beating your wife? ;p James (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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