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...June article on corporate personality testing, the Washington Post reported on a woman who passed the skills test for a customer-care job but wasn't hired because she failed the personality test. Those tests, including the ubiquitous Myers-Briggs test, have no scientific credibility or predictive value, as Annie Murphy Paul showed in her 2004 book, Cult of Personality. You can have one Myers-Briggs personality on Tuesday and another when you retake the test on Thursday. Their chief function, as far as I could tell when I took them, was to weed out the introverts. When asked whether...
...report, a detailed breakdown of the school system’s test scores and improvement, was released earlier this month. In a summary of the EQA report released before the meeting, committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 wrote that “The recent State EQA report states that the [system’s] achievement, which they measure through an indepth look at [test] scores, within district and compared to the state by grade, subgroup, timeframe, etc., is below standard...
Benjamin Lummis—who lost his committee seat last November—agreed, saying that Fowler-Finn had put in place a good reform program and that it would take time for the results to show up in test scores...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The final test was a mile walk. After racing to perform as many crunches in two minutes as possible, I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t a run that rounded out Harvard athletics’ “Operation: Summer Fitness” preliminary test.Little did the Hemenway staffers know, after three years of running late to class (including two all the way from distant Mather House) I had become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard...
...Percentage of U.S. middle and high schools that test students for drug...