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- From: mtlatour@next8 (MATTHEW T. LATOURETTE)
- Subject: Re: Briggs MyersKeywords:
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.203806.17216@mtu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:38:06 GMT
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- In article <24045@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> dhaggard@hughes.Sgi.COM (Dana
- Haggard) writes:
- (stuff deleted)
- > Can you tell me if you are
- > tested once do results illustrate consistancy over time? Can anyone
- direct
-
- As far as consistency is concerned, the test should have similar results.
- However, if you've grown a lot intellectually since the last time you took
- it, you may find some major differences. I've taken it four times within
- about 5 or 6 years and have found that although most of the results are
- the same, each successive test has had at least one dramatic change from
- the one prior to it. It does seem fairly reliable, because those dramatic
- changes make sense when I compare myself at the time of the earlier test
- to that of the latter. We all grow, so expect that your personality may
- change along with that growth. As far as choosing a career goes: IMNSHO
- get a basic idea of what you like (with the help of tests such as the
- Myers-Briggs) to select your field of study, but take a wide variety of
- classes early in your college career to give yourself a feel for what
- truly interests you. Hopefully that will save you from studying 3 or more
- years of whatever your major is and then discovering that it's not for
- you.
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