On Thursday, October 26, 2000 4:41 AM, George Cunningham
[SMTP:gkc@louisville.edu] wrote:
> As Kramer might have said, the Myers-Briggs is the biggest con job since
> one-hour Martinizing.
>
> On the scale of legitimacy it falls somewhere between palm reading and
> astrology.
>
> George K. Cunningham
> University of Louisville
This is my feeling too - having had it admistered by a management academic
who was saying how useful it was for selecting the right kind of people for
software development teams. I have to admit I cheated a bit - but I got the
impression that it echoes back to people whatever they have as their own
self-image. Perhaps the real point is then not to find out what kind of
person you are, but what kind of person you _think_ you are.
Bruce Robinson
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Blunden [mailto:a.blunden@pb.unimelb.edu.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:11 AM
> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: Jung and Vygotsky
> >
> >
> > Can I take the risk of opening a new parallel thread while we're all
still
> > reading through Leontyev?
> >
> > It has been a point of concern for me for a long time that there are
two
> > psychologies which address cognition and begin from the normal
> > ativity of a
> > human being in society, rather than the psychotic individual mind,
viz.,
> > activity theory and Jungian Briggs-Myer Typology.
> >
> > So far as I can see the Briggs-Myer types are well founded empirically
and
> > are very satifactory from a conceptual point of view, but so far as I
know
> > they lack any scientific connection with any other aspect of science,
and
> > it is surely Vygotskian psychology (for want of a better word) which is
> > where one would look for a foundation.
> >
> > Has anyone studied this?
> >
> > Andy
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