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- From: yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi)
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- Subject: Re: CFD: Creating an alt.* Newsgroup For Personality Typing Systems
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:50:36
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- In-reply-to: ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:57:25 GMT
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- In article <BxtrFq.72J@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Karleenus Schwartz Davis) writes:
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- >I still support the idea of a group for ALL people-testing systems,
- >not just personality. However, it seems I am alone. I would join a
- >group called alt.psychology.psychometrics, where we could discuss
- >personality typing systems, as well as other difficult-to-quantify
- >human qualities, like IQ. These topics are strongly related, and I
- >feel that the group should include all the tests designed to quantify
- >these things which are usually left to subjective interpretation.
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- While such a group may be useful, I think it should be separate from
- the group on personality types. A "psychometrics" group is likely to
- attract all sorts of debate on subjects such as "Are IQ tests
- culturally biased?", "Is intelligence correlated to race?", "What is
- intelligence?", etc. While such subjects are certainly worthy of
- discussion, I'd rather not see the resulting flamewars dominating
- alt.personality-types (or whatever it ends up being called).
-
- By the way, I think there has been sufficient interest expressed here
- to go ahead with the creation of the newsgroup. The consensus seems
- to be to keep the group in alt.* and to cover all forms of personality
- typing schemes (but not other psychological topics), so a name like
- "alt.personality-types" or "alt.personality.types" would seem to fit
- the bill.
-
- I'd say, go ahead and create it.
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- Brian Yamauchi Case Western Reserve University
- yamauchi@alpha.ces.cwru.edu Department of Computer Engineering and Science
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