Cult of Personality Testing How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

Name: Cult of Personality Testing How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
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ISBN: 9780743280723

ISBN-10: 0743280725

ISBN-13: 9780743280723

Edition: 2005

Authors: Annie Murphy Paul

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Millions of people worldwide take personality tests each year to direct their education, to decide on a career, to determine if they'll be hired, to join the armed forces, and to settle legal disputes. Yet, according to award winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul, the sheer number of tests administered obscures a simple fact: they don't work. Most personality tests are seriously flawed, and sometimes unequivocally wrong. They fail the field's own standards of validity and reliability. They ask intrusive questions. They produce descriptions of people that are nothing like human beings as they actually are: complicated, contradictory, changeable across time and place. THE CULT OF…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 10/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author whose writing has appeared in The New York Times magazine, Slate, Discover and The Best American Science Writing, among other publications. She is also the author of The Cult of Personality, a cultural history and scientific cri-tique of personality testing. Read more at www.anniemurphypaul.comor follow her on Twitter @anniemurphypaul.