Re: Frameshifting

2006-05-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:00 PM Thursday 5/4/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 01:37 PM Thursday 5/4/2006, Dave Land wrote: Gadzooks, you hit a nerve. Now, I have to stop writing this email and get some work done for a 12:00 meeting. I hope it is not significant in that context that the

Re: Frameshifting

2006-05-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:00 PM Thursday 5/4/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 01:37 PM Thursday 5/4/2006, Dave Land wrote: Gadzooks, you hit a nerve. Now, I have to stop writing this email and get some work done for a 12:00 meeting. I hope it is not significant

Re: Frameshifting

2006-05-05 Thread PAT MATHEWS
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:00 PM Thursday 5/4/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 01:37 PM Thursday 5/4/2006, Dave Land wrote: Gadzooks, you hit a nerve. Now, I have to stop writing this email and get some work done for a 12:00 meeting. I hope it

Re: Blog entry with interesting comment

2006-05-05 Thread Nick Arnett
On 5/4/06, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the books are aimed at boys. Both the AS and the ADD books. It seems that AS presents itself differently in girls so that makes it very difficult to pick good books. I think you may be mistaken about this. Many of the ADD books are

Re: Blog entry with interesting comment

2006-05-05 Thread PAT MATHEWS
Thanks! http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Blog entry with interesting comment Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 07:00:19 -0700 On 5/4/06, Horn, John

Re: Frameshifting

2006-05-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:39 AM Friday 5/5/2006, PAT MATHEWS wrote: Prayers for the ADD: Oh, God, grant me focus and ... oh, look, a bird! Prayers for the OCD: Oh, God, help me to relax - starting precisely at 8:01 Monday morning as soon as I get to my desk and have my coat off but before I turn on my computer

RE: Blog entry with interesting comment

2006-05-05 Thread Deborah Harrell
I'm combining posts here- PAT MATHEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snippage 3) Again in my observation, Aspies come in roughly two flavors: the organized, single-focused, linear mind; and the absent-minded professor/free-spirited idea mill. Inattentive ADD goes with the latter. If you

RE: Blog entry with interesting comment

2006-05-05 Thread Horn, John
On Behalf Of Nick Arnett All the books are aimed at boys. Both the AS and the ADD books. It seems that AS presents itself differently in girls so that makes it very difficult to pick good books. I think you may be mistaken about this. Many of the ADD books are written by women,

Myers-Briggs (was: Blog entry with interesting comment)

2006-05-05 Thread Deborah Harrell
Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: http://www.personalitypathways.com/MBTI_intro.html http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html And for the skeptical (I have only skimmed this, as it's time to head out): http://skepdic.com/myersb.html I do have a problem with this site's

RE: Myers-Briggs (was: Blog entry with interesting comment)

2006-05-05 Thread PAT MATHEWS
At any rate, you still test out Idealist, and in many ways that's the most important part because it's the central theme of your life. Pat, INTP but unwilling to make up my mind oh, look, a bird! BAD kitties! http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread The Fool
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: And for the skeptical (I have only skimmed this, as it's time to head out): http://skepdic.com/myersb.html MBTI is psuedo-science at its finest. ___

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Land
On May 5, 2006, at 11:52 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: And for the skeptical (I have only skimmed this, as it's time to head out): http://skepdic.com/myersb.html MBTI is psuedo-science at its finest. OK. You're

Re: Myers-Briggs (was: Blog entry with interesting comment)

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Land
On May 5, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Deborah Harrell wrote: OTOH, I'm split between the J and P, which makes me feel a little better, not desiring to be known as judgemental...even though in many ways, I am. Some are confused by the language of MBTI, and find one or the other terms for each of the

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2006, at 11:52 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: And for the skeptical (I have only skimmed this, as it's time to head out): http://skepdic.com/myersb.html MBTI

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Land
On May 5, 2006, at 1:27 PM, The Fool wrote: From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2006, at 11:52 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: And for the skeptical (I have only skimmed this, as it's time to head out):

Re: Myers-Briggs (was: Blog entry with interesting comment)

2006-05-05 Thread Max Battcher
Dave Land wrote: And, of course, each is a spectrum: Because they are spectra there are a number of encoding schemes out there to try to disambiguate those that move or are near the lines, and some psychologists will tell you the categorizations are meaningless without the full test and

Re: Myers-Briggs (was: Blog entry with interesting comment)

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Land
On May 5, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Max Battcher wrote: Dave Land wrote: And, of course, each is a spectrum: Because they are spectra there are a number of encoding schemes out there to try to disambiguate those that move or are near the lines, and some psychologists will tell you the

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread Nick Arnett
On 5/5/06, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's no different than ennenagrams and other bullsh!t that sounds good to the ignorant and uninformed. So what do you think of this bit of logic from the skeptics' site: However, his typology seems to imply that science is just a point of view

RE: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread Dan Minette
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Arnett Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:21 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Myers-Briggs On 5/5/06, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see a glaring logical error. The idea that

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread Charlie Bell
On 06/05/2006, at 1:53 AM, Dan Minette wrote: stuff Given that I so often disagree with Dan on many things, I think it only fair to chip in that I was lurking on this one too, and he has basically said what I would've... :) So, where are we wrong this time? Charlie