Weblog Update: Slightly Off Kilter #2290
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Vicki Brown
Apr 21, 2016, 4:45:03 PM4/21/16
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Recent updates to Slightly Off Kilter weblog:
"MBTI: Debunking the Debunkers (again)"
Posted on 20160421 by Vicki Brown
In category: Personality Type,commentary
I have been having a "discussion" in The Science Enthusiasts group in
Facebook. Someone posted another "debunking the MBTI" article (from
2014). Surprisingly, this one doesn't cite "Wharton Scholar, Adam
Grant".
The article includes this statement: "Several analyses have shown the
test is totally ineffective at predicting people's success in various
jobs, and that about half of the people who take it twice get
different results each time."
Well, yes. Both of those things are, at least partially, true.
Neither, however, is an argument that "debunks" the MBTI.
Read more in commentary... ...
Read this entry on the web at:
http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002290.html
"MBTI: Debunking the Debunkers (again)"
Posted on 20160421 by Vicki Brown
In category: Personality Type,commentary
I have been having a "discussion" in The Science Enthusiasts group in
Facebook. Someone posted another "debunking the MBTI" article (from
2014). Surprisingly, this one doesn't cite "Wharton Scholar, Adam
Grant".
The article includes this statement: "Several analyses have shown the
test is totally ineffective at predicting people's success in various
jobs, and that about half of the people who take it twice get
different results each time."
Well, yes. Both of those things are, at least partially, true.
Neither, however, is an argument that "debunks" the MBTI.
Read more in commentary... ...
Read this entry on the web at:
http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002290.html
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