Interesting Links for 09-10-2015

[andrewducker]

• Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs
  • (tags: myers_briggs history personality )
• Women are made more jealous by emotional infidelity than sexual unfaithfulness, Norwegian study suggests
  • (tags: Norway emotion cheating sex relationships gender )
• Main Linux problems on the desktop (2015 edition)
  • (tags: Linux desktop computers )
• Gut microorganisms

Comments

[cmcmck]

'The world's pretty hard on girls'

Yup!

and I have, shall we say, an interesting take on the issue!

[kalimac]

If one must take a $1695 training session to get a copy of the Myers-Briggs test, then how can so many people who presumably haven't taken that training session know their MBTI? Did they get it somehow without taking the test? I've taken the test, or what I was told was the test, and I did it by means of someone just casually handing me a copy. Maybe the article addresses this somewhere down in its core, but it wasn't interesting enough to more than skim.

The first I heard of this bin Laden "tragedy" business was this line in the New Yorker's profile of Bernie Sanders: "Correct the Record, a Super PAC backing Clinton, recently sent an e-mail to the Huffington Post suggesting that Sanders shared many views with the controversial new British Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, then noting that Corbyn had called the death of Osama bin Laden a tragedy." Nothing, you'll note, about the falsity of that claim.

[andrewducker]

Much like IQ tests, you can pay a trained tester to administer it, or you can pop to one of several free places on the internet that will run you through a bunch of questions:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

[kalimac]

So then what people are taking in quantity isn't the Myers-Briggs test but a cheap knockoff?

[andrewducker]

Oh God Yes.

Same with most people who know their IQ.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it did strike me as unlikely that you'd have had the same training - as I know that you don't treat it as fixed.

[lil_shepherd]

On the booby trap front, I am particularly fond of our side's exploding dead rats, meant to be inserted into the coal tender of railway engines, so that when they were shovelled into the boiler, as was standard practice on most railways, they blew out the boiler.