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

by Annie Murphy Paul

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The first book to thoroughly explore the phenomenon of personality testing.

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"[A] fascinating new book."

— Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker

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"Engaging...Paul is a graceful writer who combines lucid science reporting with colorful biography and intelligent social commentary."

— Sally Satel, The New York Times Book Review

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"I've been waiting for someone to investigate personality testing, and it turns out Annie Murphy Paul has exactly the right personality 'type' for the job — skeptical, smart, funny, and relentlessly thorough."

— Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women

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"Ms. Paul draws a veritable quacks' gallery of modern personality testing. With an eye for the absurd, she makes a compelling case that such tests tell us more about the men and women who put them together than about the subjects taking them."

— The Wall Street Journal

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Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

ONE A Most Typical American

TWO Rorschach's Dream

THREE Minnesota Normals

FOUR Deep Diving

FIVE First Love

SIX Child's Play

SEVEN The Stranger

EIGHT Uncharted Waters

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

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leem9, May 21, 2007 (view all comments by leem9)
Everyone who use test should know its limitations, but someone did neglect them. Let's notice them from this book.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780743280723
Subtitle:
How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
Author:
Paul, Annie Murphy
Publisher:
Free Press
Subject:
Psychology
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Personality
Subject:
Assessment, Testing & Measurement
Copyright:
2005
Edition Description:
B102
Publication Date:
September 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
index; notes
Pages:
302
Dimensions:
8.37x5.55x.79 in. .65 lbs.
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