EVALUATING THE ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE SHORT PERSONALITY TEST:

People generally are doing a type of work for which they are best suited, and went as far in school as they wanted, barring certain emergency situations. So, questions about work and school give clues to level of intelligence. Length of time on each job (and reasons for leaving other jobs) indicate presence of or lack of conscientiousness, feelings of duty, loyalty, honesty, ability to cooperate, responsibility and reliability. A job hopper who did not consistently better himself should give suspicion of one with psychopathic tendencies.

The question about marriage gives clues only: long marriages indicate the possibility that we are talking with a "normal" person, a psychoneurotic, or a cycloid. And yet to confuse the issue, psychopaths, mental deficients, homosexuals and schizoids are often married, too. Those who have a tendency not to go with the opposite sex might be homosexual or schizoid, or certain types of psychoneurotic, but there is no certainty here, either.

Spare time activities and drinking alone or with others give ideas about the Special Ways of Adjustment used (athletics, hobbies, researches, alcoholism, etc.).

The question about health is seeking out the inadequate psychopath, the tired psychoneurotic, the hypochondriac, the hysteric, the schizoid. It has been noted that the tired psychoneurotic suddenly becomes very animated when given the chance to describe his condition.

The questions about being arrested are searching mainly for psychopathic tendencies.

Since, with every personality type on the chart, we are studying characteristic behavior that is found in many nor mal people, to which of the types should we give employment? Barring the difficulties of the least desirable of all, the psychopath, each of the others has special usefulness for special kinds of work. Therefore, our success in putting

the right employee in the right job, whether in initial employment, promotion, or transfer, depends on our ability "to size up people correctly."

THE MENTALLY DEFICIENT is ideal for kinds of repetitive work that would drive the more intelligent to distraction. Some assembly lines, work for gardeners, certain guards, janitors, garbage collectors all are essential to our culture, and valuable indeed are these people who can do work of this kind well. Rather than be snobbish with them, we should appreciate them. And these people will respond admirably to kindness.

THE PSYCHOPATHIC is a bad actor, liar, cheater, who does what will please him most at the moment. He can be helped only by constant supervision in which he is rebuked for wrongdoing and praised when he does better. It is usually the extreme psychopath who is the guilty party in sex crimes.

THE PSYCHONEUROTIC can be one

of the most important members of our society, once he comes to realize that he must accept himself as he is. For he, just like all the rest, cannot change his personality. If his stomach has always been in an uproar, it always will be; if he becomes frightened easily, he will, etc. Prescribed medication from a physician can make his suffering more bearable, and then, through his special interests and talentts, he can be an excellent worker and relatively hapPy person. Being unduly sensitive to criticism, he performs his duties on a safe level above reproach. Steady consistent, it is not unusual for a neurotic to remain 15 to 40 years or longer with the same company.

THE HOMOSEXUAL is normal in every respect except for his sex orientation. His dependability, intelligence, good consience, and sensitivity make him a valuable worker. Once it is realized that he does not and cannot convert non-homosexuals to his sexual pattern, his talents can be better utilized by placing him in positions of trust, authority, and creativity.

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THE SCHIZOID, with his keen intelliorganizer. He likes the limelight oftengence and sharp conscience, finds his times and performs well while there. success depending heavily on the proper Recognizing the faults and virtues of choice of vocation, for he is the least the six main personality types, what flexible individual of all. The scientist, can we do with our knowledge? First researcher, inventor, artist, propounder of all, we can understand ourselves betof new religious insights and mathematter so that we can best utilize our caical laws is the schizoid, and he frepacities and overcome our own dequently quits a job because he cannot ficiencies in so far as possible. Second, bear criticism, supervision, regimentafinally realizing that "nobody is pertion, routine, or direct orders. He is a fect," perhaps we can at least cease to failure often in work that brings him criticize and blame and ridicule and into contact with people, but he may persecute others for what they and we make a good chemist, bookkeeper, cannot change; our own personality writer, archeologist, astronomer, physitype. Then, appreciating our own pocist. tential and that of others, we are better able to lead them as well as ourselves to greater usefulness for the good of mankind, remembering:

THE CYCLOID is often the "executive type," and is the most "normal" of all the personality types. With good "There is so much good in the worst intelligence, ambition, aggressiveness, energy, he may become a successful of us, and so much bad in the best of salesman, dynamic minister, prolific us that we should be among the first of author, company president, efficient us to be more kind to the rest of us,"

PETER BLACK, Continued from page 19

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