> One thing I learned that, in all my reading of this in professional
> support
> networks for the IT industry, I'd never heard about: The utter
> bogosity of
> the Meyers Briggs personality tests that are ubiquitous in the larger
> organizations. I found it odd that no one ever brought this up. Email
> discussion lists for IT pros, etc. are hardly absent people critical
> of HR
> tactics, so I would have thought that someone would have pointed out,
> with
> a snarl, how utterly stupid they are. Not in 10 years belonging to such
> lists had I read anyone pointing it out.
Let me paint with a broad brush: Nerd types love classification schemes--consider the Geek Code--and simplistic explanations of social phenomena. Why do you find it surprising they accept Meyers-Briggs? Especially when they get to interpret the results.
John A