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You would be surprised, but companies actually pay hard money to consultants to do these astrology readings and present them to shareholders as a "measure of workforce compatibility".

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I had to do something like that once at work. I picked random answers for all the questions.

That's the easy part. Did you also have to do a 1 hour interview with the consultant after the questionnaire?

EDIT: also an hour long group meeting after the interviews to be presented your collective results?

Most people know how to game these now. Want to be a "leader"? Choose extroverted type answers. Get the red patch.

I think it was more popular before that book ("The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing") came out. Not that I ever believed it before that, but I assumed it was created by actual social scientists rather than two untrained amateurs as is the case.

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