{"id":524,"date":"2005-12-14T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2005-12-14T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T18:49:43","slug":"personality-tests-and-their-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/14\/personality-tests-and-their-defects","title":{"rendered":"Personality Tests And Their Defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=myspeculation-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0743280725%2526tag=myspeculation-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0743280725%25253FSubscriptionId=1ESPWHQPEAFEE2CS3BG2\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0743280725.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"The Cult of Personality Testing : How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves\" class=\"alignright\"><\/a>Sometime last year I read <em>The Cult of Personality<\/em> (since retitled to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=myspeculation-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0743280725%2526tag=myspeculation-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0743280725%25253FSubscriptionId=1ESPWHQPEAFEE2CS3BG2\">The Cult of Personality Testing<\/a>). I picked it up on a whim at an offbeat bookstore in Half Moon Bay between two church services.<\/p>\n<p>I loved it and found it utterly persuasive. I\u2019ve had a long-simmering aversion to personality testing (rooted in a bad experience in seminary, observing friends get shafted by the Assemblies of God personality screening system for missionaries, some biting passages about psychology by Richard Feynmann, and being a critical thinker). Something about them always felt wrong (and I could even put parts of my unease into fairly persuasive words), but I never had the facts I needed to understand exactly where the problem lay. This book changed all&nbsp;that.<\/p>\n<p>I mention it because I just read an article by Malcolm Gladwell called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/2004\/2004_09_20_a_personality.html\">Personality Plus<\/a> that covers the same ground. It\u2019s a great intro to the concepts covered in the&nbsp;book.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re in the habit of referring to people by their Myers-Briggs type, or if you like to use the terms sanguine and choleric in casual conversation, or if you\u2019ve ever made a decision based on the results of a personality test, READ THIS BOOK (or at least Gladwell\u2019s article).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime last year I read The Cult of Personality (since retitled to The Cult of Personality Testing). I picked it up on a whim at an offbeat bookstore in Half Moon Bay between two church services. I loved it and found it utterly persuasive. I\u2019ve had a long-simmering aversion to personality testing (rooted in a \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/14\/personality-tests-and-their-defects\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cPersonality Tests And Their Defects\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-8s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}