Dang. Personally I always wanted to be an alpha. Just joking; of course I recognize the reference to BNW.
Still, I disagree. There was a similar argument made on one of the homeschooling lists to the effect that children with adhd should not be diagnosed or treated because that would constitute "labelling" them and that would be bad. I think the diagnosis and the label are separate things and that if used appropriately knowing that a child has adhd or that a co-worker is an introvert may be helpful, ie the kid doesn't always not do the third thing in a list f tasks to be annoying -- he genuinely forgets it. And my co-worker doesn't dislike me -- she just needs some solitude to recharge sometimes. For example. Dana 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:5:134850 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
