The Briggs meyers thingy is what I call a quadrant chart. You see a lot of this in corporate training. They are great to illustrate a point and they can delineate interactive relationships but to actually measure yourself on one is ludicrous.
Yet like the lie detector they are trotted out again and again as something meaningful
xample
Currently my company has this training to examine your career and make sure it ........................ who cares
It makes use fo this quadrant chart - x axis = Enthusiasm or interest in your job - lo to high and the y axis is your ability lo to high for this endeavor
Now this makes a great illustration - the general principle is that you want to be in the upper right quadrant where interest and abilities are high and you don't want to be in the lower left quadrant where the interest is lo and the ability is lo.
Pretty simple concept
But then these moron instructors say "OK now where are you on the chart?"
So I pop up and ask for the scale on interest - what is the maximum interest - is that sex with bathing in excrement on the bottom.
How do you rate ability on the y axis?
The quadrant illustration is great to make a point but stop there
The B.M. test does attempt to put a quantitative scale on what is essentially a qualitative parameter
Pure folly and a cop out.
Bentspoon
Yet like the lie detector they are trotted out again and again as something meaningful
xample
Currently my company has this training to examine your career and make sure it ........................ who cares
It makes use fo this quadrant chart - x axis = Enthusiasm or interest in your job - lo to high and the y axis is your ability lo to high for this endeavor
Now this makes a great illustration - the general principle is that you want to be in the upper right quadrant where interest and abilities are high and you don't want to be in the lower left quadrant where the interest is lo and the ability is lo.
Pretty simple concept
But then these moron instructors say "OK now where are you on the chart?"
So I pop up and ask for the scale on interest - what is the maximum interest - is that sex with bathing in excrement on the bottom.
How do you rate ability on the y axis?
The quadrant illustration is great to make a point but stop there
The B.M. test does attempt to put a quantitative scale on what is essentially a qualitative parameter
Pure folly and a cop out.
Bentspoon