tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11665094.post8085560305413459590..comments2023-10-01T01:33:36.716+10:00Comments on The Inadvertent Blog: TypesAnghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05117564133284679134noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11665094.post-25306761685193815032013-06-16T19:41:04.942+10:002013-06-16T19:41:04.942+10:00One of my lecturers in undergrad psych told us a s...One of my lecturers in undergrad psych told us a story once. One of his professors administered a questionaire-style personality test on his students. When they were done, he collected their papaers and a few days later gave each student an individualised report on their "personality". He asked them not to discuss the results with one another, but rate them for accuracy. Apparently the average rating was 4/5. Once he'd collected the ratings, he told them to compare their results with each other... and it turned out all of them had been given the exact same report.<br /><br />:)<br /><br />- Nat Nathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00368225075499787155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11665094.post-73411100270199653462013-01-07T00:14:02.489+11:002013-01-07T00:14:02.489+11:00Well, some people get off sexually on being embarr...Well, some people get off sexually on being embarrassed. I guess that care for introverts thing implies introverts never have humiliation fetishes...?<br /><br />---<br /><br />I find personality tests are best interpreted as "this is how people perceive me".<br /><br />(I guess that little separator doesn't really do justice to how unrelated those two statements are... What can you do?)Alexeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232609099336072702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11665094.post-4206813903945504042013-01-04T12:35:52.599+11:002013-01-04T12:35:52.599+11:00Anything that involves patients/clients filling in...Anything that involves patients/clients filling in a self-report questionnaire is GREAT for quick categorisation (as you said) and fantastic for easy to number-crunch research. But if you actually want to learn about yourself/a client then the longer an more involved interviews and tests are the place to go. Even the Rorschach and similar projective tests are being found to have much better utility and validity for issues that are being investigated on a level deeper than "are you depressed yes/no"Erasmusnoreply@blogger.com