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"Throughout history, psychological diversity has been suppressed"

 
 
The Planet of Sound
17:38 / 24.06.02
From today's Guardian (24/6) - article by David Thompson. The evils or benefits of psychometric testing? Whatchooreckon?

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/officehours/story/0,9897,742570,00.html
 
 
Cloudhands
09:19 / 26.06.02
ultimately, psychometric questionaires seem designed to identify people who are just smart enough to realise that the object of the excerise us to pretend to be the kind of person one is supposed to be.

I had always thought that psychometric testing was a load of rubbish because it is so easy to cheat the tests. But having a job means really acting like a machine. Look at all the jobs that used to be done by people that are now done my machines. Having a job is playing a role, even when you are talking to people while working you're not 'being yourself' you are behaving how a person in that job should act. So I guess it doesn't matter if you fake the test, what's important is that you are prepared to fake it and know how to.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
09:49 / 26.06.02
Have had to sit a few of these of late and my problem is, with several hundrded questions to answer over an hour or so, faking it is impossible unless you focus incredibly hard to maintain some consistency in answering. It also suggests that you can replicate a particular profile and that you are sure that's the profile they're looking for. Which is easy enough in a simple Belbin Team Roles thing but a major undertaking if it's the whole Myers Briggs enchilada or similar.

Being able to assign people to broad groupings of introversion /extraversion etc. seems like such a blunt way to assess a complex and changing thing like personality. Good behavioural questioning at interview will tell you far more about a person's character and competence than an OPQ. Or maybe I'm just OPQ'ed out at this point in my fruitless search to find a job I'll like as much as the one I've got, only in London.
 
  
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