The MBTI and Other Measures of Personality Type | Roger Pearman

The MBTI and Other Measures of Personality Type | Roger Pearman: "Personality Type Assessment Tools

A Rich Set of Options for Sorting for Jungian Type - Roger Pearman

Topics covered: Personality type instruments, Measures of psychological type, Jungian type, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI, Golden Personality Type Profiler, Majors Personality Type Inventory, Psychological Type Indicator"

How does disruptive selection change the appearance of the typical bell-curve for a population trait? - Yahoo! Answers

How does disruptive selection change the appearance of the typical bell-curve for a population trait? - Yahoo! Answers

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Help w/ the results of natural selection: disruptive selection and stabilizing selection? - Yahoo! Answers

Help w/ the results of natural selection: disruptive selection and stabilizing selection? - Yahoo!

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The GMAT is A-Changin%u2019 - Bell Curves

The GMAT is A-Changin%u2019 - Bell Curves

Testing Changes – Integrated Reasoning

• The big one is that one of the essays for the AWA is going to be scrapped in favor of a new 30-minute section called Integrated Reasoning. Integrated Reasoning will include questions that ask test-takers to assimilate, interpret, or convert information from graphs and/or charts.
• Instead of being presented 2 AWA essays candidates will be presented with either an analysis of an issue or an analysis of an argument once the new test launches.
• Other questions in the Integrated Reasoning section will also ask test-takers to evaluate outcomes.
• The format of questions on Integrated Reasoning will also change. Some questions will now allow for multiple correct answer choices, have multiple tabs with different information on each tab, and have “drag-n-drop” answer completion.
• GMAC is also currently testing a listening component for the Integrated Reasoning section. Current tests are focusing mainly on how such a component would affect non-native speakers of English.
• The Integrated Reasoning section will NOT be adaptive.
• The score for Integrated Reasoning will NOT be figured into the 200-800 scaled score we’re all so familiar with. It will be given its own score component as part of your score report.

PLoS Biology: The Evolution of Norms

PLoS Biology: The Evolution of Norms

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030194

Shape of things to come - Wired 11.05: START

Wired 11.05: START

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/start.html?pg=2

The Shape of Things to Come

The bell curve, that beautiful form of regularity, is getting turned upside down.

By Daniel H. Pink

		START
		signal : noise
		The Shape of Things to Come
		Nick Denton, Blog Mogul
		Why GM Food Could Start a Trade War
		The FBI's Candyman Cases Go Sour
		Oh, Nooo! What If GPS Fails?
		Open Source Spuds
		jargon watch
		Getting High for Science
		3 Ways to Rethink the Pay Phone
		The High Priest of the Atari Cult
		The Bleeding Edge
		Four Ways the FCC Screwed Up
		Wired | Tired | Expired

In the mid-19th century, a few of Europe's finest scientists and mathematicians noticed something peculiar about the way the world organized itself. When they measured large samples of various things - the length of people's middle fingers, say, or the price of certain goods over time - the results tended to cluster around an average. When plotted on a chart, the data took the shape of a bell. This bell curve, as it was dubbed, defined "normal distribution" - and it became a fundamental law of natural science, an elementary truth about the nature of reality. Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton - who pioneered the related idea that everything from stock prices to your descendants' IQs would eventually revert to the mean - called the bell curve "an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity."

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But today Galton's beautiful form might not be so regular. Although bell curve distribution is still considered normal, a surprising number of economic and social phenomena now seem to follow a different arc. Instead of being high in the center and low on the sides, this new distribution is low in the center and high on the sides. Call it the well curve.

It's popping up everywhere. Take the size of organizations. Large companies - pairing off like beer-goggled students at a frat party - are becoming gargantuan enterprises. Think HP-Compaq, Citigroup, and AOL Time Warner. Meantime, small enterprises are also proliferating. The US Census Bureau reports record numbers of "nonemployer businesses" - teensy firms without any paid employees. Yet while the big grow bigger and the small multiply, midsize enterprises are waning. The pattern is similar in geopolitics. The past decade saw the rise of both huge multinational federations (Nafta, the European Union) and tiny secessionist movements and small independent states. But the political entities in the middle - countries such as Italy and Spain, for example - are on the unprecedented brink of losing population.

Consumer culture is going bimodal, too. Electronics manufacturers are racing to equip us with screens small enough for cell phones or large enough for home theaters - relegating standard screens to the scrap heap. High-end luxury hotels and low-end budget chains are doing well - but at the expense of midprice accommodations. In retail, Wal-Mart is soaring, boutiques are thriving, but middlebrow Sears is struggling. As The Wall Street Journal noted last year, "consumers are flocking to the most expensive products and the cheapest products, fleeing the middle ground in between."

Then there's the drooping middle class. The Federal Reserve Board's latest analysis of family finances showed that from 1998 to 2001, American incomes were up across the board. But when economists divided the population into five equal segments, a well curve emerged. "Incomes grew at different rates in different parts of the income distribution," the Fed reported, "with faster growth at the top and bottom ranges than in the middle."

We can even glimpse this inversion in the classroom, where most of us first encountered the bell curve. The National Assessment of Education Progress is a standardized test also known as the nation's report card. It measures how well American schoolkids can read and groups them into four categories: advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic. From 1992 to 2000, the percentage of students scoring in the top two categories increased. The percentage scoring at the bottom level remained distressingly high. But the portion scoring basic dropped nearly 10 percent. Even the nation's children, it seems, are graded on a well curve.

Of course, not everything we can measure conforms to this new shape. In national politics, the fastest-growing affiliation is Independent. Diversity and interracial marriage are rendering the old bimodal and trimodal racial categories irrelevant. Yet almost everywhere we look closely, we find ourselves staring down a distributional well. The implications are huge: insurers, marketers, and policy-makers may be basing decisions on faulty premises about what is normal. They're assuming a vibrant center - Middle America, middlebrow tastes - when the action has migrated to the edges. The 180 from bell curve to well curve has turned their logic on its head.

Galton and his contemporaries believed that conditions would deviate from the bell curve only during periods of transition. Every age, of course, supposes it is living through a unique era of profound change. But in our case, the conceit might actually prove true. The madness of our times might simply reflect our stumbling effort to revert to the mean. Either that or one of the world's eternal verities is less eternal than we supposed. This deviation may turn out to be anything but standard.

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Daniel H. Pink (dp@danpink.com), the author of Free Agent Nation, is writing a book about the rise of right-brain thinking in modern life.

SAT Scoring - Test Renorming

SAT scoring good article

Paul Maxim's Mega Test Renorming

SAT Exams: What Does SAT Stand for?

SAT Exams: What Does SAT Stand for?

TK Conflict Mode

Thomas Killman Conflict Modes

https://www.skillsone.com/Pdfs/smp248248.pdf

Online Personality and Career Test Packages

Online Personality and Career Test Packages

http://www.discoveryourpersonality.com/testpackages.html

GOOD SITE. Strong MBTI

Triple Nine Society - Admission

Triple Nine Society - Admission

http://www.triplenine.org/main/admission.asp

Assignment 1 reference

How to estimate your IQ based on your GRE or SAT scores

http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/GREIQ.aspx

How to estimate your IQ based on your GRE or SAT scores

New and improved method to estimate your IQ based on your GRE scores:

1. Add up your Verbal + Quantitative scores.
2. Look at the table given below. It also gives your percentile with respect to the general population. An example of a test with 15 IQ points per standard deviation (SD) is the Wechsler. An example of a 16 SD test is the Stanford-Binet.

This way of estimating was based simply on an interpolation between two points: 1) the theoretical average IQ of GRE takers= 115* with the average GRE V+Q score being 1035 in 1999-2000, and 2) the minimum IQ level of the Ultranet society= 164 with the accepted (old) GRE score being 1610. The resulting formula was IQ=26.8+0.085*GRE. The formula corresponded serendipitously well with existing critera. For example, the Triple Nine Society andIQuadrivium, both 99.9th percentile societies, accept GRE scores of 1460 or 1454 and IQ scores of 149 or 150. Intertel and the Top One Percent Society ask for IQs of 136 or 137 and a GRE score of 1300. Mensa asks for an IQ of 132 and asked for a V+Q score of 1250. You can see below how close the table came to these values (1.3 IQ points or less). The IQs referred to are on the 16 SD scale. I don't know if the IQ values much below 115 are as accurate or not.

You may want to see a list of entrance criteria for high IQ societies with direct links to their entrance requirement pages.

To estimate your IQ based on your SAT scores:

Note: The first two links are based on my formulae and the last two links are from published sources.

If you took the SAT I, go to this page.
If you took your SAT before April 1995 and your score was higher than 1280, go to this page otherwise go here.
If you took the SAT many decades ago, go to this page.

Note: Mensa considers that scores from after January 31, 1994, "No longer correlate with an IQ test."

Questions? My email address is given near the bottom of this page.

New GRE to IQ Theoretical Estimator

GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile		GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile
1610	159.67	163.65	99.997		1010	111.86	112.65	78.542
1600	158.88	162.80	99.996		1000	111.06	111.80	76.959
1590	158.08	161.95	99.995		990	110.27	110.95	75.313
1580	157.28	161.10	99.993		980	109.47	110.10	73.606
1570	156.48	160.25	99.992		970	108.67	109.25	71.841
1560	155.69	159.40	99.990		960	107.88	108.40	70.021
1550	154.89	158.55	99.987		950	107.08	107.55	68.149
1540	154.09	157.70	99.984		940	106.28	106.70	66.230
1530	153.30	156.85	99.981		930	105.48	105.85	64.268
1520	152.50	156.00	99.977		920	104.69	105.00	62.267
1510	151.70	155.15	99.972		910	103.89	104.15	60.233
1500	150.91	154.30	99.966		900	103.09	103.30	58.170
1490	150.11	153.45	99.958		890	102.30	102.45	56.085
1480	149.31	152.60	99.949		880	101.50	101.60	53.983
GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile		GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile
1470	148.52	151.75	99.939		870	100.70	100.75	51.869
1460	147.72	150.90	99.927		860	99.91	99.90	49.751
1450	146.92	150.05	99.912		850	99.11	99.05	47.633
1440	146.13	149.20	99.895		840	98.31	98.20	45.521
1430	145.33	148.35	99.874		830	97.52	97.35	43.423
1420	144.53	147.50	99.850		820	96.72	96.50	41.342
1410	143.73	146.65	99.823		810	95.92	95.65	39.286
1400	142.94	145.80	99.790		800	95.13	94.80	37.259
1390	142.14	144.95	99.752		790	94.33	93.95	35.267
1380	141.34	144.10	99.708		780	93.53	93.10	33.314
1370	140.55	143.25	99.657		770	92.73	92.25	31.406
1360	139.75	142.40	99.598		760	91.94	91.40	29.546
1350	138.95	141.55	99.530		750	91.14	90.55	27.739
1340	138.16	140.70	99.452		740	90.34	89.70	25.987
1330	137.36	139.85	99.362		730	89.55	88.85	24.294
GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile		GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile
1320	136.56	139.00	99.261		720	88.75	88.00	22.663
1310	135.77	138.15	99.145		710	87.95	87.15	21.095
1300	134.97	137.30	99.013		700	87.16	86.30	19.593
1290	134.17	136.45	98.864		690	86.36	85.45	18.158
1280	133.38	135.60	98.696		680	85.56	84.60	16.790
1270	132.58	134.75	98.507		670	84.77	83.75	15.490
1260	131.78	133.90	98.294		660	83.97	82.90	14.259
1250	130.98	133.05	98.057		650	83.17	82.05	13.096
1240	130.19	132.20	97.792		640	82.38	81.20	12.000
1230	129.39	131.35	97.497		630	81.58	80.35	10.970
1220	128.59	130.50	97.169		620	80.78	79.50	10.005
1210	127.80	129.65	96.807		610	79.98	78.65	9.104
1200	127.00	128.80	96.407		600	79.19	77.80	8.264
1190	126.20	127.95	95.967		590	78.39	76.95	7.485
1180	125.41	127.10	95.484		580	77.59	76.10	6.762
GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile		GRE V+Q	IQ 15 SD	IQ 16 SD	%ile
1170	124.61	126.25	94.956		570	76.80	75.25	6.095
1160	123.81	125.40	94.380		560	76.00	74.40	5.480
1150	123.02	124.55	93.753		550	75.20	73.55	4.915
1140	122.22	123.70	93.073		540	74.41	72.70	4.398
1130	121.42	122.85	92.337		530	73.61	71.85	3.926
1120	120.63	122.00	91.543		520	72.81	71.00	3.495
1110	119.83	121.15	90.690		510	72.02	70.15	3.105
1100	119.03	120.30	89.773		500	71.22	69.30	2.751
1090	118.23	119.45	88.794		490	70.42	68.45	2.431
1080	117.44	118.60	87.748		480	69.63	67.60	2.143
1070	116.64	117.75	86.637		470	68.83	66.75	1.885
1060	115.84	116.90	85.457		460	68.03	65.90	1.653
1050	115.05	116.05	84.210		450	67.23	65.05	1.447
1040	114.25	115.20	82.894		440	66.44	64.20	1.263
1030	113.45	114.35	81.511		430	65.64	63.35	1.099
1020	112.66	113.50	80.060		420	64.84	62.50	0.955

Please note that the decimal places give the impression that the numbers are more precise than they really are.

* Mean of college graduates: p. 178, Wechsler's Measurement and appraisal of adult intelligence by J.D. Matarazzo. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1972

The Bell Curve Images @ MaximumIQ.com

The Bell Curve Images @ MaximumIQ.com

many bell curves, resource

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GRE FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

GRE FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.eduers.com/gre/faqs.htm

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-552-m/89-552-m2005013-eng.pdf

International Adult Literacy Survey

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