Posted by Larry Hoover on October 17, 2004, at 10:26:23
In reply to Re: Yet Another Personality Test » Larry Hoover, posted by verne on October 16, 2004, at 23:11:15
> Good point Lar,
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> One's personality may interfere with the personality testing, skewing the results. Various kinds of denial, shame, and other people's viewpoints may work their way into the test process.I would restate what you said, to say that one's state of mind skews certain types of personality tests. Guilt denial, or shame would certainly skew the outcomes.
> I also thought about what happens when someone who habitually disguises themself and projects a false self, takes the test. Would a narcississtic (can't spell that word, like mississippi for me) sociopath ever admit it in a test?
There are more appropriate psychometric tests for determining those sorts of things. The MMPI, for example, has two distinct embedded scales to determine if someone is trying to outwit the test itself.
> Years ago when I was on a kind of high horse (big ego) I was convinced I was a tortured artist when I took the enneagrams test. I answered the test in a way that gave that impression. But my psychologist who had been seeing me for 2 years said, "no, you are a reformer, you would rather be right than happy". I wrote a long treatise arguing how I couldn't possibly be a reformer type. (besides being a reformer wasn't romantic enough for me)
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> Years later, I took the ennegrams test again and came out as a reformer. I realize now that an artist type would not have written a paper arguing that they were an artist - but a reformer would.
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> someday I hope to be a reformed reformer.
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> verne<grin>
Lar
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