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- From: kene@sequent.com (Ken Ewing)
- Newsgroups: alt.psychology.personality
- Subject: Re: MBTI tests availability (was: Re: How useful is MBTI really?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.203304.27412@sequent.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:33:04 GMT
- References: <C0uB2D.338@sci.kun.nl> <1993Jan15.220454.11347@bradley.bradley.edu> <C13K3p.407@sci.kun.nl> <1993Jan25.175159.6051@honte.uleth.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan25.175159.6051@honte.uleth.ca> std_gibson@hg.uleth.ca writes:
- >
- >Isn't the MBTI a 94-question test? I remeber doing it a couple of years ago
- >(a pencil/paper version) in an undergrad psychology class.
- >
- >And, as with most psych. assessments, I believe that the "original" test is
- >property of the publishing company that does the hard copies of it. If there
- >is a computer version, is it done by the company that owns the rights to the
- >test or is it an "illegal" version of it?
-
- MBTI is about 120 questions long. A good friend of mine became officially
- certified a few months ago to administer and interpret the test. I have
- before me the info booklet that I got when I re-took MBTI a few months
- ago. The inside cover says the copyright is held by Consulting
- Psychologists Press, Inc. It also says that "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator"
- and "MBTI" or registered trademarks of the same company. Based on this
- and on statements from my friend, I'd say that this company is the
- "official" authority for dispensing and interpreting MBTI.
-
- The full address, by the way, is:
-
- Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc.
- 3803 E. Bayshore Road
- Palo Alto, CA 94303
-
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- Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
- Beaverton, Oregon
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