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Personality Testing
ResumeProponents of testing assert that by learning more about a persons personality type businesses save money on expensive employee turnover. Critics of testing worry that personality testing provides an inaccurate picture of a person and can lead to making important and lasting decisions based on subjective and inconsistent information.
Hear about America's love affair with personality testing.
Guests:
Annie Murphy Paul, author of "Cult of Personality"
Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker magazine
LD Moran, president of Achievement Tech.
This program aired on September 22, 2004.