This is another example of using a false measure that appears objective
in order to enforce variance among people that does not exist. In
business and many other areas, the problem is selecting one person for a
job from 100 applicants (or more) who are largely the same. We need to
appear to use objective measures that appear to discriminate one
applicant from another. We want the selection to look objective. Since
the screening process has usually filtered out anyone objectively low on
any reasonable selection variables, the remaining pool contains people
who are the same. The only reasonable and fair solution to this is to
use a lottery. They have a lottery for admission to Philadelphia
Charter kindergarden that everyone endorses as fair. Although no one
provided a rationale for this lottery, I think all involved understand
that there would be no fair method to select the children based on tests
or some other factor.
We need to use lotteries more often in these situations. We could even
make a standard for constrained variance that would kick in a lottery
when the screened group becomes too similar. That would be fair and
applicants would know why they were or were not selected.
Mike Williams
Drexel University
On 3/23/13 1:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest
wrote:
Subject: Nothing Personal: The questionable Myers-Briggs test | Science |
guardian.co.uk
From: Christopher Green<[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:15:14 -0400
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Here's a good article about the problems of the Myers-Briggs test that might be
useful to pass along to students who ask about it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific?CMP=twt_fd
Chris
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York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
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