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- From: kene@sequent.com (Ken Ewing)
- Newsgroups: alt.psychology.personality
- Subject: Re: ENTJ classifications
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.204352.27543@sequent.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:43:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.172333.14086@maclaurin.bioch.ox.ac.uk> liqun@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Liqun Wang) writes:
- >
- >
- >A colleague of mine came out as ENTJ from xmbti. After reading Jon Noring's
- >brief summary on the types, she concluded that the output only reflected what
- >she wanted to be rather than what she really is and decided to test again. The
- >results of the second test is XNXX. I am at lost to explain the implication to
- >her. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot in advance.
- >
- >liqun (ENFP, minority type in a.p.p)
-
- I'll hazard an interpretation.
-
- As I mentioned in an earlier post, a good friend of mine recently
- undertook the 5-day certification process for MBTI. One result of
- this is some clarification of details about the test that I did not
- know before (and still have some difficulty agreeing with). The most
- pointed of these details is this:
-
- MBTI, according to the people who created it, does not measure
- degree or strength of a given temperment. It is, rather, merely
- a sorter. How close or far you come to the middle does not
- indicate how strong you are in a given temperment, it simply
- shows HOW EFFECTIVELY THE SORTER WORKED FOR YOU. If you
- "pegged the meter", the sorter worked well for you. If you came
- close to the middle, the sorter was less effective at determining
- your type. But the relative distance from the middle of the range
- does not indicate the relative strength of a given attribute.
-
- If this is true, then your friend was simply not sorted well by MBTI.
-
- Ken Ewing
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