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WimpDDLI, version 3.41 (currently based on DDLI version 3.41)
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:
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:
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:
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).
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:
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:
If you have any constructive criticism, bug reports, or suggestions for
features you think would be useful, please contact me at:
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):
Email: fdnh@troi.cc.rochester.edu
Snail: Fergus Duniho, 1095 Genesee St., Rochester, NY 14611-4148, U.S.A.