G.MCLURE@SU-SCORE.ARPA (08/05/84)
From: Stuart McLure Cracraft <G.MCLURE@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI. This is
in response to Stanford query about on-line personality tests.]
The book you want is
PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME (absurdly chosen title)
by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
It contains a 70-question instrument, the Keirsey Temprament Sorter,
based on the psychological typology developed by Carl Jung and
others (Myers-Briggs). The Myers-Briggs instrument which is the
true instrument is not available to the general public. Distribution
of it is limited to psychology grad students and psychologists/psychiatrists.
The Keirsey test is the best substitute I've found.
[...]
Several psychologists I have spoken with indicate the Jung typology
tests such as the Myers-Briggs and Keirsey are gaining recognition
as extremely deep tests. Although I have no formal degree in
psychology, I feel that the Jung typology is vastly more deep than
the Rorschach, Minnesota Multi-Phasic, and California Psychological
inventories.
The Myers-Briggs was eschewed by earlier researchers and is only
recently over-coming its "bad" reputation. The correlations between
personality types and profession, marriage, partners, etc are
very significant.
To me, the Jung typology is the most profound psychological work
done in this century by anyone.
Stuart