The Stolen Generation

[old man emu]

9 hours ago, Marty_d said:

 

That explains One Nation and the Nats, what about the rest?

 

They were given a "make-up" test

[Bruce Tuncks]

Most people are either leaders or followers...  there is a test called the Myers-Spriggs test which will not ever be tried.

[old man emu]

The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator is a self-report inventory designed to identify a person's personality type, strengths, and preferences. Based on the answers to the questions on the inventory, people are identified as having one of 16 personality types.

 

The goal of the MBTI is to allow respondents to further explore and understand their own personalities including their likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, possible career preferences, and compatibility with other people.

No one personality type is "best" or "better" than another. It isn't a tool designed to look for dysfunction or abnormality. Instead, its goal is simply to help you learn more about yourself.

[onetrack]

The Myers-Briggs test has little support in the scientific community as it's regarded as a "pseudo-science". It's very difficult to pin down exactly what makes a good leader. Many great leaders have had huge personality flaws.

 

The biggest problem with our leadership systems today is that people with an overwhelming urge to dominate and who are obsessively ambitious, are usually the ones in power positions.

 

It's interesting to examine the personalities of the number of great leaders who never actually sought positions of power, but who were pushed into those positions by circumstances.

 

Many of these people turned out to be excellent leaders, Ben Chifley being a good example. Relatively lowly educated, and unwilling to push himself into the PM's position, he only found himself there via circumstances.

[Old Koreelah]

26 minutes ago, onetrack said:

It's interesting to examine the personalities of the number of great leaders who never actually sought positions of power, but who were pushed into those positions by circumstances.

 

Many of these people turned out to be excellent leaders, Ben Chifley being a good example. Relatively lowly educated, and unwilling to push himself into the PM's position, he only found himself there via circumstances.

Another great leader who didn’t seek the job was Harry S Truman, remembered now as one of America’s greatest presidents. He came from obscurity, did a far better job than anyone expected, then retired quietly, driving himself and his wife across the US to their modest home. Because he left office with no money; Congress created the Presidential Pension and insisted Hoover also got one so Harry would not be embarassed.

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/harry-s-truman/

[willedoo]

Truman had some great sayings. I liked the one during the election campaign where he said to the crowd something to the effect of "I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who’s hitting you?". In context it was followed by " It’s about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.”

[facthunter]

When someone will do anything to get a particular job He/she is the last one who should be given it. They will come with an agenda that suites THEM.  Nev

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

The Myers-Briggs test has little support in the scientific community as it's regarded as a "pseudo-science".

That's true, but I don't know if the the creators were psychologists, but it appears that they did apply the Scientific Method by hyypotosysing, collecting data, analysing it and reaching conclusions from the analyses.

 

It began with Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, in the United States in the early mid-20th century. Briggs was inspired to research personality type theory when she met Isabel’s future husband, Clarence Myers. She noticed he had a different way of seeing the world. This intrigued her enough to start a literature review to understand different temperaments. Carl G Jung published Psychological Types in 1921. Briggs read the English translation (1923) and saw similarities between their ideas. However, Jung’s theories of personal difference were much more developed. Briggs and Myers thought Jung’s work was so useful that they wanted to make his ideas accessible to a wider audience. She was determined to find a way to give people access to their psychological type. This led to the idea of a type indicator, and Myers dedicated the rest of her life to its development. She spent the next 20 years developing questions and validating the instrument and the theory. The MBTI instrument was first published in 1962.

 

1919	Isabel Briggs Myers graduates from Swarthmore College. Isabel’s mother, Katharine Briggs, starts to research personality type theory
1921	Carl Jung publishes Psychological Types: The Psychology of Individuation
1943	Form A of the instrument is copyrighted
1962	Isabel self-publishes Introduction to Type. Educational Testing Services (ETS) publishes research version of the MBTI instrument and the MBTI Manual

[willedoo]

I just did the test online and got a result of ENTP personality type. It sounds like some sort of communicable disease.

[facthunter]

As long as it's not what Tony Abbott has.  Nev

[old man emu]

13 hours ago, willedoo said:

I just did the test online and got a result of ENTP personality type. It sounds like some sort of communicable disease.

ENT - Ear, nose & Throat. What's the P for?

[spacesailor]

Phobias. 

Were do you normally get any infection from !.

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Public transport?  Nev

[nomadpete]

"Were do you normally get any infection from !. "

 

Crowds!

 

Like this in Feb this year. Thousands from all over the country and not a mask in sight.

 

 

[Marty_d]

6 hours ago, nomadpete said:

"Were do you normally get any infection from !. "

 

Crowds!

 

Like this in Feb this year. Thousands from all over the country and not a mask in sight.

 

 

Ah, PW1 - the irony is, that's where they were doing the bulk vaccinations when I took the kids to get jabbed.