The Karmanator

| The short answer is no, it is not biased against veterans. |
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| Posts: 29947 | Location: Johnson City, TN | Registered: April 28, 2012 |  
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Three Generations of Service

| quote: Originally posted by egregore: quote: MMPI
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
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| Posts: 15950 | Location: Downeast Maine | Registered: March 10, 2010 |  
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| I took the MMPI twice. Failed the first because I wasn't black... Chicago Housing Authority, go figure. Passed it the 2nd time for Chicago Police. Overall the MMPI is a nice GAGUE for applicants, but it's not the "Be all - End all" for a standard. It does help weed out some of the malcontents, but not all. As ZSMICHAEL stated, a Clinical Pshrink is IN ADDITION TO the MMPI a valuable asset in the hiring process.
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| Posts: 8915 | Location: Attempting to keep the noise down around Midway Airport | Registered: February 14, 2008 |  
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I'll use the Red Key

| I don't want anything with the name Minnesota in it telling me my personality - do I pass or fail?
Donald Trump is not a politician, he is a leader, politicians are a dime a dozen, leaders are priceless. |
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Doubtful...

| quote: Originally posted by 2012BOSS302: I don't want anything with the name Minnesota in it telling me my personality - do I pass or fail?
You are ok in my book!
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| Posts: 3164 | Location: Coker Creek,TN | Registered: April 02, 2009 |  
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Little ray of sunshine

| The MMPI is designed to detect psychopathology. In other words, it is designed to detect actual craziness. It is not a general-purpose personality test. I doubt the MMPI is really of much use in employment screening. I suggest you research this, and think about whether the test is actually of any use to your purpose. I won't say it has no utility, but I really think it is less useful for this purpose than many think. This isn't unusual. Many use the MMPI for such things. Signewt is right - HR departments love such things as it lends a "scientific" aura to the selection process. The problem is that it is mostly a false aura of scientific exactitude.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. |
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Little ray of sunshine

| quote: Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL: The MMPI is not a pass/ fail test and is not biased towards the military. An interview with a clinical psychologist who works in the security field is a much better approach. Of course that costs more money. The MMPI is a self report Personality Inventory that is actually a pretty poor screening instrument for job applicants. A mid level manager with experience in the hiring of security personnel would make more sense.
Having read your previous posts I am guessing the corporate people came up with that approach.
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist

| I've taken it a number of times, mostly for classes and training. There is no bias in the test itself, because there is no "right" or "wrong" answers...and the test hasn't changed in years. The bias comes in what the hiring body is looking for. they are the ones who look at the results and decide which scores, in which areas, they deem worthy quote: I do know that when I took it upon hire, I was sane going into it but damn near went insane by the end of the 500+ questions. You got off lucky, you should have taken the version with 1200 questions
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| Posts: 14374 | Location: northern california | Registered: February 07, 2003 |  
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The Joy Maker

| quote: Originally posted by nighthawk: I had to take it to get hired at my airline, it was pretty weird test, with some bazaar questions, and equally bazaar multiple answers. Don't know if it has changed much, this was back in the 1980's.
Maybe, since you're working for an airline, they wanted to make sure you could answer passenger's questions about where to buy rugs and magic monkey paws? quote: Originally posted by Will938: If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole. |
| Posts: 17201 | Location: Washington State | Registered: April 04, 2003 |  
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Corgis Rock

| The MMPI was developed at a mental hospital in Minnesota. It was "normed" by giving it to relative that visited patients. Think about that. The good news is that has been a huge amount of further research. I've given several hundred. How you report the test is being given is really questionable. We never, ever just gave one test. It was always multiple tests that could be compared. This included an IQ test. Plus, the person administering the testing had to write a detailed report. Spend a day testing someone, you get a good understanding of them. About the only thing you can get from just one test would be the validity scales. You can see if the person is trying to make themselves look good or bad.
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| Posts: 6085 | Location: Outside Seattle | Registered: November 29, 2010 |  
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