Yes, I saw the wikipedia entry but as with the MBTI there is a very tiny core of people who would like to debunk it but are facing a GOLIATH in the process. I just have to be 100% skeptical of this miracle workshop that costs a lot of money and has testimonials that make it seem truly miraculous in a godly way.
Does anyone on this list know of any new work debunking the MBTI. I am basically as up to speed as Scott, et al.'s book on Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psych but have not seen anything new of late. Why is that? It would seem so easy to design studies to debunk this stuff. Why does no one make that a priority? I'll start with me: I tried years ago but was shot down by my IRB because the study would have involved minor deception and at that time the tone on our IRB was zero allowance of deception of any kind. Sigh. Thank goodness we are past that stage but in the meantime I've got more on my plate than I can handle. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Mike Palij [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:34 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: re: [tips] something new? On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:20:14 -0800, Annette Taylor wrote: >Have any of you heard of either the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® >(HBDI®) or Whole Brain® Thinking? This sounds like more megabuck psychobabble >that is bleeding businesses and individuals without any evidence to back it up. >You can google if you haven't heard about it but I just can't find any >critiques. I hadn't heard about it before but googling does reveal a Wikipedia entry that provides a description and some critiques; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrmann_Brain_Dominance_Instrument The HBDI is not exactly new. There apparently had been studies using it back in the 1980s, such as: DeWald, R. E. (1989). Relationships of MBTI types and HBDI preferences in a population of student program managers (Doctoral dissertation, Western Michigan University, 1989). Dissertation Abstracts International, 50(06), 2657B. (University Microfilms No. AAC89-21867) Krause, M. G. (1987, June). A comparison of the MBTI and the Herrmann Participant Survey. Handout from presentation at APT-VII, the Seventh Biennial International Conference of the Association for Psychological Type, Gainesville, FL Terence Hines appears to have been a a critic of the theory and several of his publications are listed on the Wikipedia entry identified above. Hines has a Wikipedia entry too but it is very brief and somewhat misleading. Hines is a psychologist at Pace University (Westchester campus) and has been active in the skeptics community with publications on a variety of topics. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=6880 or send a blank email to leave-6880-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6938 or send a blank email to leave-6938-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
