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Surrounded By Idiots
2026-09-01 09:00:00
Peter and Michael discuss “Surrounded by Idiots,” a book that dares to ask: Can the mystery of human relationships be unraveled by a workplace personality assessment?
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Sources:
- Pioneers, Drivers, Integrators, and Guardians
- Creator of Lie Detector Test Dies; Lecturer and Author Produced Comic Strip
- One of Sweden’s biggest scientific bluffs
- Pseudoscience and the Claim of Practical Utility: The Case of Thomas Erikson’s Surrounded by Idiots
- Thomas Erikson accepts being called a pop psychology writer
- Four personality types may be neither robust nor exhaustive
- Spuriouser and spuriouser: The use of ipsative personality tests
- Reconsidering the use of personality tests in personnel selection contexts
- Using Personality Tests in Pre-Employment Screening
- Employment Tests and Selection Procedures
- The Cult of Personality Testing
- A history of the early days of personality testing in American industry: an obsession with adjustment
- Psychological Testing in Personnel Selection, Part II: The Refinement of Methods and Standards in Employee Selection
- Psychological Testing in Personnel Selection, Part III: The Resurgence of Personality Testing
- ACLU Files Discrimination Complaint Against CVS
- Target Corporation to Pay $2.8 Million to Resolve EEOC Discrimination Finding
- Personality Tests Are the Astrology of the Office
- The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work
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