[Buddha-l] An experiment (Gender on Buddha-l)

[Timothy Smith]

Hahahhah...funny.  Curt, but I can tell you I have used the 'theory' 
very effectively over 25 years of practice in organizational settings.  
Usually your type is
pretty easy to get to come around.  All I need do is to suggest that 
you can have it your way and you'll go along, dissenting all the way, 
and claiming that
its all bullshit but learning something about yourself and others in 
the process.  Personality tests may not be 'scientific' in the most 
rigorous sense of the word,
but what area of science didn't begin with efforts similar to what you 
describe.  The psyche has proven a bit less tractable by modern 
observation and measurement
techniques, yet that doesn't seem to have prevented a great deal of 
'depth' work from providing valuable insight about how (buddhist 
content follows) one might live
a less dukkha-centered life.

Timothy Smith
Wheelwright Associates
www.wheelwrightassoc.com
On Oct 10, 2005, at 11:45 AM, curt wrote:

> I have the type of personality that refuses to take personality tests. 
> A friend who is a retired psychiatrist told me I have "oppositional 
> defiant disorder" - one of the symptoms of which is that when someone 
> tells you you've got it you take it as a compliment (which I did). She 
> insisted that it isn't really a good thing - which I steadfastly 
> refused to believe. She said that was a symptom, too.
>
> All personality tests are direct descendants of Medieval (and older) 
> theories of personality types that were based on natal astrology, 
> "physiognomy" and "humors". They work about as well - if that.
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