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The Risk of Relying Exclusively on Psychological Analyses

A personality assessment by a licensed psychologist of a prospective employee, business partner, or anyone else you don’t yet know very well who could be a risk to your well-being, could be very effective.
Then again, it might not be, as in the case of a man who served more than 10 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit after authorities obtained an arrest warrant based on psychological analysis of his drawings that examiners claimed implicated him.

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April 15, 2010 2 Comments

Effectiveness of Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment Questioned

While I believe there may be some value in the Myers-Briggs personality assessment, particularly in helping to determine social inclination, for example, two things must be kept in mind: it’s a self-assessment test, so it may not reflect true personality; the test labels the subject either-or, and nothing in-between, so it’s possible to get different results taking the test on different occasions.

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February 26, 2010 3 Comments