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Thread #144424 Message #3339768
Posted By: Bill D
17-Apr-12 - 07:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unconscious prejudices - Harvard study
Subject: RE: BS: Unconscious prejudices - Harvard study
A strange eccentric offshoot of the MMPI and Meyers-Briggs? (do they still do the MMPI?)
My Meyers-Briggs test showed that I am among the group that doesn't trust such tests.
I KNOW I have basic tendencies toward prejudices of sorts... to certain languages, to heavy accents that I can't understand well, to certain types of food, to people who dress in certain ways or use perfume or excessive makeup, to those who drive certain types of vehicles.... etc....
SO... I admit to myself that I DO look judgmentally at some things..(even tests)... and try everyday to rise above it all and evaluate all most things and people on their own merits. It is quite a process to "know thyself". Am I basically nice to people? Or am I looking for acceptance? etc.... My prejudices 'feel' like they have been been adapted to my observation of othersprejudices...but ummm... ☺