#CitationsNeeded: Ep. 159: The #AntiWorker Pseudo-psychology of #Corporate #PersonalityTesting

"Is it a higher compliment to be called a) a person of real feeling, or b) a consistently reasonable person?" "Which word in each pair appeals to you more? a) scheduled, or b) unplanned?"   Questions like these are posed to millions of current and prospective workers and students every year. They come from personality tests, whether the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Clifton StrengthsFinder, or other surveys purporting to assess personality traits and job aptitude. Through a series of tens to hundreds of questions, personality inventories claim to identify qualities like dominance, neuroticism, or introversion, synthesize a user profile, and determine that user’s fitness for a given job History of personality testing used in military, educational, and corporate settings; the relationship between personality assessments, labor law, and the corporate consultancy class; how personality testing threatens livelihoods of people basedon race,disability, etc.

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