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Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs

Merve Emre, Digg, Oct 09, 2015
Commentary by Stephen Downes

I'm not sure exactly what to make of this item, but I can't resist passing it along. Sure, Myers-Briggs has had its criticisms in the past, but I haven't seen anything quite like this. "Reading through the earliest drafts of the type indicator, now carefully filed away in Hay's personal papers at Cornell University, I am perhaps more surprised than I should be by its racial overtones, its sexism," writes Merve Emre. "CAPT's reluctance to open the archive would seem to confirm my darkest suspicion: That there lurks some ugly secret behind the history of the type indicator that they want to keep locked and buried."

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