QUOTE(Acid09 @ Jul 20 2009, 08:06 PM)
Actually when you take personal inventory tests like the myer's-brigs type indicator they make you choose between to options intentionally. This makes you commit to one option or the other and allows asessors to look for consistency in your answers. So because this test follows along the same lines that is an indication that this test was put together by someone who knows at least a little bit about what they are doing.
Sorry, but this is incorrect reasoning.
1. The myers-briggs test is not considered to be a reliable or valid test.
2. The use of mutually exclusive answer choices is not enough to conclude that a test is good or made by someone who knows what they are doing. Nor are mutually exclusive answer choices an essential prerequisite for a good test.
3. Assessors do not "look for trends" while scoring a myers-briggs test, they add up how many introvert verses extrovert points you get and the majority wins; a person who is 52 percent introverted and a person who is 97 percent introverted will be put in the same "introverted" category, while a person who is 49 percent introverted will be labeled an "extrovert." In short, the mutually exclusive categories themselves are set up to be "scored."
4. My point was that the given test "forces" mutually exclusive categories, which may be convenient for establishing a hierarchy of scores, but also thereby detract from the ideal. As I see it, the ideal demonstrates the relative predisposition of multiple trends, not simply which trends are the greatest or "win."
This post has been edited by monkman418: Jul 20 2009, 09:00 PM
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