Re: To Ainge, doctor's system is a real brainstorm

[Frederick.T.Hurley.Jr.01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Frederick T. Hurley Jr. 01)]

--- Celtic4Hire@AOL.com wrote:
I work for a major corporation and I had to take a diversity class at work. 
As part of the training, we had to take a "personality" test which typed 
people into four classes of people related to leadership by answering 
questions and working with a group. 

There is nothing that is going to guarantee someone is going to be a great 
basketball player. But I believe there are ways are measuring leadership, 
work ethic, team building, etc that I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss....
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You mean Meyers-Briggs (I may have the name wrong, but it's something like that).  I think the problem is that this guy is taking a test that has been used for sometime to determine a personality type, and is using it to classify a physical characteristic.  There are many factors from someone's upbringing and emotional development that can cause people to turn out certain ways, and such tests try to broadly group them.  It's much the same as when you learned back in grade school whether you were a visual or auditory learner.  While this field may or may not hold any scientifically useful merit, it certainly does not do what the good doctor espouses, which is to predict basketball talent based upon a physical attribute.

However, I see some merit to giving potential players such a test.  If a whole lot of top players have a similar Meyers-Briggs profile, and very very few have another, then perhaps there are reasons for this.  However, no, there is no scientific way to predict talent based upon brain type.  Personality type, maybe.  Brain type, no...