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Sunday, August 05, 2007

Personality test

Personality tests, such as Myers Briggs, are a popular tool in the workplace. They replace vague subjective feelings with scientific measurements. But how far should we trust them? I recommend you try the Forer Personality Test. You'll probably learn something important.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A brilliantly worded post Alex and certainly confirmation of something I have suspected for some time.

Alex Farran said...

Thanks Matthew. If you're interested, I recommend reading Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind. It's full of practical psychological insights like the forer effect.