Alan Wexelblat writes:
Hunh. Doug, I'm sorry to oppose you on this, but I think that the sort of bullshit pry-into-your-personal-life stuff that companies are resorting to these days is *exactly* the sort of stuff that cypherpunks would want stopped!
Have you ever had to take one of these tests? Have you seen the questions they ask? I have been handed a test (in an all-too-recent interview) and after looking at the test I told them flat-out I would not take the test and if they hired people based on it then I wouldn't work at their company.
[The questions have to do with all kinds of shit like "Have you ever had a homosexual experience?" and "Have you ever shoplifted anything?" and "How do you feel about XXX?". Totally unrelated to my job skills.]
Simple solution: If you don't want to take the MMPI test (*), don't work for that company.
(* MMPI is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index test, which sounds like the test described here. It has a couple of thousand of these questions. Without defending the analytical powers of this test,
Tim: the MMPI has 600 questions, with approx 4x redundancy for indicators of deception, and *can* be manipulated to read whatever indicators (or non- indicators) you choose. All you need to do is visit your local medical library and do a little homework... -Jim