Our All-American Business Cult and Agism

[Mole]

If we are members of an all-American business cult, we will not read the facts in "Personality Brokers" from Oxford University, no, we will look for ways to attack the critic of our all-American cult.

In finding ways to personally attack and discredit the critic, we follow tried and true paths. The latest attack was made privately to attack my age.

In defending the indefensible in our cult, we reach for attacks off the shelf, such as, agism, sexism and misogyny.

 

[Tomb1]

If we are members of an all-American business cult, we will not read the facts in "Personality Brokers" from Oxford University, no, we will look for ways to attack the critic of our all-American cult.

Oxford did not publish "Personality Brokers." Doubleday published "Personality Brokers" and is a division of Penguin Random House. Oxford had no involvement with "Personality Brokers." Penguin Random House LLC is an American Publishing Company and mainly targets the generalist reader. Oxford University Press sticks to more academic stuff.

 

[Mole]

Oxford did not publish "Personality Brokers." Doubleday published "Personality Brokers" and is a division of Penguin Random House. Oxford had no involvement with "Personality Brokers." Penguin Random House LLC is an American Publishing Company and mainly targets the generalist reader. Oxford University Press sticks to more academic stuff.

Why do you refuse to read the book?

 

[Tomb1]

Why do you refuse to read the book?

I did read the book. A lot of it is just strawman, generalization, fluff, rumination, guesswork, speculation and "lawyering." Overall, pretentious junk. The author (EII-Ne 3w4 sp/so) tries to manufacture the MBTI into some sensationalized 'Opiate of the Masses' drug that it's not, but just is not thorough enough in her investigation to make a convincing job of it or to even qualify her work as scholarly or academic.

That she is a professor of English at Oxford matters not....Noam Chomsky is a linguistics professor at MIT and he has published some off the rails kooky stuff concerning politics and international relations.

Personality tests are notoriously inaccurate and there is a business-side to typology, for sure. I've said that for awhile. The two main problems with enneagram tests is that (1) tests rely on self-reporting and (2) test question/answer sets are based on descriptions of types rather than the more subtle and nuanced distinctions between types. But just because tests are a sucky method for typing yourself with and just because there are people who try to cash in on typology does not mean that the typology its based on is inherently false.