Yeah. I wasn't specifically singling out Gruss to rail against (sorry Gruss). It's just that I grew up in that environment and saw the long term damage it can cause. I specifically turned down a lucrative job offer from a company that facilitated doing these personality models for corporate "improvement".
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta. -Kevin On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:13:15 -0500, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin, > > You've managed to encapsulate my criticisms of the MBTI exactly. What > many people forget is that these are not all or nothing - its not > binary in which you are or are not type X. Rather we score on these > things along a distribution. By trying to fit people within a type > (which BTW is so antique thinking in psychology that it was refuted in > the 1930's and 40's by Raymond Catell), you limit their responses and > behaviors. For instance how different is a person who scores just > under the cutoff for E from one who scores just over? According to the > MBTI they are very different, yet you talk with them and they are more > similar that those who are on the extremes. > > larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:134821 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
