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[Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

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ISBN10: 0743280725, ISBN13: 9780743280723, [publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York] Softcover Paperback. Award-winning psychology writer Annie Paul delivers a scathing expose on the history and effects of personality tests.Millions of people worldwide take personality tests each year to direct their education, to decide on a career, to determine if they'll be hired, to join the armed forces, and to settle legal disputes. Yet, according to award-winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul, the sheer number of tests administered obscures a simple fact: they don't work. Most personality tests are seriously flawed, and sometimes unequivocally wrong. They fail the field's own standards of validity and reliability. They ask intrusive questions. They produce descriptions of people that are nothing like human beings as they actually are: complicated, contradictory, changeable across time and place. The Cult Of Personality Testing documents, for the first time, the disturbing consequences of these tests. Children are being labeled in limiting ways. Businesses and the government are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars every year, only to make ill-informed decisions about hiring and firing. Job seekers are having their privacy invaded and their rights trampled, and our judicial system is being undermined by faulty evidence. Paul's eye-opening chronicle reveals the fascinating history behind a lucrative and largely unregulated business. Captivating, ...
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Paperback / softback. New. FAST FOOD NATION meets LISTENING TO PROZAC in this fascinating, disturbing look at the history and effects of personality tests. ISBN 0743280725 9780743280723 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0743280725, ISBN13: 9780743280723, [publisher: Free Pr] Softcover reprint edition. 302 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

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ISBN10: 0743280725, ISBN13: 9780743280723, [publisher: Free Press] Softcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0743280725, ISBN13: 9780743280723, [publisher: Free Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The first book to thoroughly explore the phenomenon of personality testing.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
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[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

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[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]