[Ailist] Another take on Myers-Briggs

[Bruce Elkin]

> http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/2008/09/but-what-about-all-
> those-aha-moments.html

Hi Stephanie,
Thanks for this.  I¹ve long been leery of assessments that are fixed, and
was delighted to find out that the Stanford Binet IQ test was never meant to
be a fixed score.  Rather it was to measure the effects of interventions
with French school students.  Somehow, the myth developed that it was fixed,
and unchangeable.
About 20 years ago, at a little school near where I used to live, a new
principles introduced two innovations ‹ a student garden, and peer tutoring
‹ and the kids IQ¹s went up.  Experts got up in arms and descended on the
school with their tests on mass, only to find that, indeed the scores had
gone up, and were continuing to go up.  The principal was using the tests
(better called assessments) in the way Binet meant them to be used.

Now, adding to my understanding of tests, the Barnum Effect your blog
describes helps further undermine my faith in fixed score, or fixed
attribute assessments such as the Meyers-Briggs.  Great stuff, and brave of
you to post it.

Cheers!
Bruce
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