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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: "The Invisible Partners"
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 10:07:46 EDT
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> I ran into an interesting variation of this several years ago.  My wife
> (now ex-) and I were in marriage counseling.  At the start of counseling,
> we took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), which
> is a widely-used personality measure.  One of the measurements which comes
> out of the MMPI is called the "masculine/feminine" score.  To my surprise,
> I came out extremely feminine (more that two standard deviations from the
> mean)!  Now, I am a heterosexual male with a strong interest in outdoor
> sports, and no inclination at all to act effeminate.  Why did the MMPI
> label me "strongly feminine"?  The counselor explained that, when the test
> was invented shortly after World War II, "masculine" meant "interested
> in hunting and fishing and not interested in the fine arts", whereas
> "feminine" meant the reverse.  Since my time in the mountains is spent in
> technical rock climbing or wilderness skiing, not in hunting or fishing,
> and since I like the fine arts, I'm feminine (according to the MMPI).
> Maybe I should go out and buy a skirt....  [WALT HAAS]

Just goes to show how stupid and arbitrary such classifications of people's
characteristics (AND of people themselves!) really are.  (Is this a feminine
or a maculine response? :-)
-- 
"iY AHORA, INFORMACION INTERESANTE ACERCA DE... LA LLAMA!"
	Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr