rofl. Excellent Brave New World quote. larry
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 08:33:30 -0600, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:5:134824 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=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
