RE: Survey of Tech Writing Personality Types

["David Downing" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

In trying to respond to this, I find what a number of other folks have
found -- that in each of the four dichotomies defined for the test, I
have some aspects of one and some aspects of the other -- and that I may
shift from one pole to the other, depending on the situation.  For
example, I tend toward the judging when I'm sure I know everything there
is to be known about a situation, and toward the perceiving pole 

I seem to recall that the end result of this test is no supposed to be a
simple four-letter classification, but rather a point on a grid that
shows where you are in relation to others.  (It seems like it would have
to be a four-dimensional grid, and so would have to exist purely inside
a computer as a four-dimensional array.)

Contrary to what one other poster stated, I think the test CAN serve as
a measure of compatibility -- or at least explain why some people can't
come to any sort of agreement on certain issues  If two people are at
oppite ends of one of the dimensions, they're bound to see things
differently.


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