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- WimpDDLI, version 3.41 (currently based on DDLI version 3.41)
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- Psychological Type Indicator.
-
- WimpDDLI is an implementation of the Duniho and Duniho Life Pattern Indicator
- (DDLI) for Acorn RISC OS machines. The DDLI can indicate your Myers-Briggs
- psychological type, from the answers you give to 107 questions about
- yourself.
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- Conditions of use:
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- WimpDDLI programming copyright © Tim Birks 1994.
- DDLI algorithm and questions copyright © Fergus Duniho 1992-1994.
- Other text files © as attributed.
-
- This software is freeware. That means that all authors' rights are
- reserved. You may not change or remove any part of it without approval.
- However, you may use, copy and distribute it freely, as long as you don't
- make a profit by doing so, and provided all files are included unaltered
- (including this file). You use this software entirely at your own risk; no
- responsibility is accepted for any consequence of use.
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- About WimpDDLI:
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- WimpDDLI is written in BBC Basic V on a 2Mb Acorn A4000 with RISC OS 3.1.
-
- The original DDLI (by Fergus Duniho) is a freely distributable C program
- that runs from the command line. Compiled versions exist for MS-DOS and
- Amiga (at least). This version (WimpDDLI) for Acorn RISC OS was written by me
- with the permission of Fergus Duniho, guided by the original source files
- and the questions file DDLI/QST, downloaded from oak.oakland.edu as
- /pub/msdos/educatin/ddli341.zip.
-
- In fact, WimpDDLI is really just a RISC OS front-end for the DDLI, which is
- described in the files DDLI/DOC and DDLI/FAQ in the Docs directory. These
- can be read from within the program. The conditions of use and copyright of
- the DDLI itself are also described in these files. Note that I extend the
- disclaimers in DDLI/DOC to myself also. Some of the "how to use" information
- in the files does not apply to WimpDDLI, since they relate specifically to
- the original command line C program.
-
- For more information about Myers-Briggs psychological type, see the other
- files in the Docs directory, as well as the DDLI documentation. These other
- files were downloaded from various places, though all seem to have been
- postings to the Usenet group alt.psychology.personality at some stage. You
- can read all these files, as well as this help file, from within the program.
-
- Note that the fact that I have based WimpDDLI on the DDLI does not mean that
- I endorse its validity or accuracy, or indeed the validity of Myers-Briggs
- psychological types. My interest in it is entirely casual and amateur.
-
- There is apparently a good reason for the eccentric usage of the words
- "judging" and "perceiving" within psychological typing. Treat these terms
- as pure jargon and forget their "real" meanings for now.
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- Using WimpDDLI:
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- Using the program should be quite straightforward. Double-click on the
- !WimpDDLI icon to install WimpDDLI and open an introductory dialogue box.
- Type in your psychological type (Myers-Briggs model), if you already know it.
- Then click on OK to begin the questions.
-
- Answer each question by clicking with the mouse on the preference scale.
- This advances you to the next question. The "step through" arrows allow you
- to skip a question for the time being, or to reconsider an earlier question.
- A menu option allows you to un-answer a question (use the middle mouse
- button to summon a menu).
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- Help on how to approach the questions is given in the introductory text. For
- more help, refer to the DDLI documentation, which can be read from the menu
- option "Other information". Text files describing the Myers-Briggs model and
- its sixteen psychological types, and indeed this help file, can all be read
- from the menu also.
-
- When you have answered all the questions, your results are displayed in a
- window. Use the vertical scroll bar to read all the information. As well as
- indicating your psychological type, the DDLI also measures some compound
- preferences that may confirm your type, as explained in the DDLI
- documentation.
-
- A menu option allows you to return to the questions if you want to change
- any of your answers. You can return to the results window by clicking on
- the "next unanswered question" arrow, if all questions are answered.
-
- You can save your answers, complete or incomplete, also from a menu option.
- Drag a previously saved file onto any WimpDDLI window to recover your
- answers. These files have the same format as the raw scores which Fergus
- Duniho would like to collect, so you can do your bit to improve the DDLI by
- forwarding your file to him, again as described in the DDLI documentation
- (just send the file as plain ascii text to the email address at the end of
- this help file). The most recent set of complete answers is automatically
- saved within the !WimpDDLI application directory as the file Result, in case
- you forget to save it; if you want to keep it, remember to rename the file
- before running the program again...
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- What Now?:
-
- Once you've worked out your psychological type, what does it mean? Don't ask
- me, I'm not a psychologist... You could go and find some literature on the
- Myers-Briggs model. Or you could look in the directory Docs, which includes
- some interesting information about psychological types. These can be read
- within the program by selecting the appropriate menu items. The file PTS/TXT
- is a summary of MBTI psychological typing (and includes a bibliography). The
- sixteen files with four-letter file-names contain long descriptions of
- each type. Read these to see if your type as measured by the DDLI fits you.
- You might be quite surprised at how close the description is. Have a look at
- the other descriptions and check that they do *not* fit. If you can find out
- the psychological types of those around you, this might even give you a
- greater understanding of them, too.
-
- Or you might just think it's a bit of harmless fun...
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- Acknowledgements:
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- Fergus Duniho, for permission to use the questions and algorithms of the
- DDLI with my own programming.
-
- Joe Butt, Marina Heiss and Brian Yamauchi, for permission to edit and
- reformat the type descriptions they wrote (to use within WimpDDLI). However,
- for now I've decided to leave their files in their original state.
-
- Alban Killingback, for access to a RISC OS 2 machine; and the denizens of
- room 328, where that machine is kept, for their patience.
-
- Grace Marshall, for introducing me to psychological type.
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- Brought to you by:
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- If you have any constructive criticism, bug reports, or suggestions for
- features you think would be useful, please contact me at:
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- Email: tab@orc.soton.ac.uk
- or tab@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Internet fashion)
- Snail: Tim Birks, ORC, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH, United Kingdom.
-
- For criticism, suggestions, etc. regarding the DDLI itself, or to help its
- development by submitting your raw scores, please contact Fergus Duniho
- (see the DDLI documentation):
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- Email: fdnh@troi.cc.rochester.edu
- Snail: Fergus Duniho, 1095 Genesee St., Rochester, NY 14611-4148, U.S.A.
-
- New E-Mail address for Tim is:
- pystab@bath.ac.uk
-