Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by _avishek At work, I recently had an MBTI test done, and I came out as the INFP type. … Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Agilemind I'm INTJ. Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim In 29 years at my former place of business (approx 5000 employees) I've seen two times when consultants came in to administer personality tests. Each time we were given a fancy pop-up card with a colourful graph to display on our desks for the dubious benefit of promoting better interaction with others. Management eventually saw these tests for … Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jwenting sadly many companies still use them (and 'iq tests') to determine whether candidates are "suitable for the field", iow whether the guy/gal has the right personality and iq to work in that line of business at all. Which leads to many programmers being highly surprised that despite 15-20 years of working successfully and professionally for … Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Agilemind Personality tests are at least a bit more interesting than self-help seminars or BS pep rally or 'team building' nonsense. Walking around blind-folded is so useful for having effective project meetings. There is at least a little bit of scientific basis for some personality traits. PS There is a decent amount of evidence that intelligence is real… Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim Then there is the often parodied (and rightly so) "team-building" seminar. Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jwenting @Agilemind intelligence is real, but those "tests" don't test for it. They test for test taking ability. I've found end reported errors in the tests, verifiable errors, but as the companies using them rely blindly on the numerical score reported by some grading algorithm you fail anyway. And of course a single universal "test" … Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Agilemind Very true, intelligence is very hard to measure accurately as just one example most IQ tests require reading questions off a page/screen so dyslexics often score poorly despite being able score as normal if evaluated via interview. Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim I knew one person in high school who consistently did poorly on IQ tests because she was OCD (not a common term back when I was in high school). She was obsessive about very carefully and completely filling in each o (to indicate her multiple-choice selection) with her pencil. A non-OCD would quickly make a mark and continue. She would spend 5-10 … Re: Psychometric Tests Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jwenting yes, knew someone similar. Always did poorly on written tests, was brilliant when it came to face to face interviews. Nobody recognised for years that she was severely dyslexic... Had something similar myself. Did poorly on tests where the questions were written on the blackboard in the front of the classroom. When the test was printed and …