Democrat profs less likely to give extreme grades
When it comes to grading, Republican and Democratic professors at one unnamed elite university put their ideologies into practice, a new study finds: Republicans welcomed inequality, handing out more very high and very low grades, and Democrats’ grades grouped more tightly around the average.
It would be interesting to see whether there are correlations between political affiliation and Myers-Briggs scores. Anybody know any studies?
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I too would be interested in this.
I'm an INFJ, which is the profile they use for people like MLK and Ghandi -- do you think they would be staunch libertarians if they were alive today?
Does that make one of us wrong? Or are differences in political opinion allowable within personality profiles?
Posted by: John J. Walters | May 19, 2011 12:06 PM
Studies? How about a blog loop:
Professor McIntyre made a comment some time back...
Jay Hancock’s business blog carried a mention the other day of the Typealyzer, a software program that purports to analyze the personality type associated with a blog
This post closed with what has become a favorite bit of snark for me. I've repeated it many times:
The Myers-Briggs test assigns people to variations on four basic personality types. Think of it as astrology for college graduates.
source:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2008/12/it_knows_my_type.html
Posted by: MrRational | May 19, 2011 12:35 PM