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Big Book, Little Value, July 19, 2003
This review is from: The Big Book of Personality Tests: 90 Easy-To-Score Quizzes That Reveal the Real You (Spiral-bound)
Salvatore Didato's "Big Book of Personality Tests" is a good idea, poorly completed. The book consists of eight chapters each dealing with an important aspect of life: Romance, Happiness, Work, Emotions, etc. Within these chapters 100 personality quizzes are offered, many with intriguing titles, such as: How Romantic Are You? How's Your Sense of Humor? and Can You Control Your Own Destiny? The reader is drawn in to complete a test, only to discover that each is only 10 to 12 questions long and most are just statements that require a true/false answer. These tests are not scientifically valid psychological assessments, but merely the author's ideas of what may be useful questions. How foolish does the author/publisher expect readers to be by addressing serious issues like marital unhappiness, parenting problems, and career change with a handful of unvalidated questions? While many questions are "based on" scientific psychological tools, no percentiles, averages, or normative information can be shared because there are none. It is like asking for an x-ray and being handed a flash light. Once the reader completes each test one sentence on how to calculate the score is offered, then the reader is provided with another couple of lines of banal analysis: "You should do as well as the average person." Has the reader learned a personal insight? Is the reader entertained? Is there some common good produced by this book? The answers to these questions are all the same. Dr, Didato's goal of informing readers of psychological concepts is a noble one, however this book soundly fails that test.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Collection of Quizzes, November 3, 2003
This review is from: The Big Book of Personality Tests: 90 Easy-To-Score Quizzes That Reveal the Real You (Spiral-bound)
The Big Book of Personality Tests by S.V. Didato is a well-written collection of quizzes which are easy to take, about 15-20 minutes each. They cover, what the author says are 8 life domains like,your true self, your family life, social life, work attitudes, intelligence, your true potential etc.. The book is not a deep psychoanalytic probe into one's personality( no book
ever written can do that) but merely a capsule glimpse into one's behavior
which suggests further self study. Didato tries to keep it from being a heavy reading, reference-laden text
book, but rather a straight-forward, easy to read and understandable book.
It offers a capsule summary of various personality traits which give
readers a pretty good picture of themselves in a most enjoyable way. The amusing cartoons are almost worth the price of the book itself.
I especially found helpful the quiz on questions job interviewers focus on
and how to handle them. The validity of the tests in this book is solidly based on clinical
experience or actual research done at universities in the US and around the
world, which most media quizzes don't do. The author encourages readers to
contact him if more research references are desired, something quite unique
for a writer to do.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Big Book of Personality Tests by Dr. Didato MD, April 16, 2005
This review is from: The Big Book of Personality Tests: 90 Easy-To-Score Quizzes That Reveal the Real You (Spiral-bound)
This work measures classic psychological behaviors which are
a part of us all. For instance, the book tests traits in the
following important areas:
- Are you a risk-taker or risk averse
- How daring are you?
- Do you handle confrontation constructively?
- Are you a listener or do you talk over people?
- Are you considerate of others in a variety of classic contexts?
- How do you express anger?
- Can you take charge of anything and assume responsibility
or more importantly accountability?
All of these issues are important in daily life. The author
covers them in a question/answer format and places us squarely
in a category inside the norm or outside .
This book will help you to identify inappropriate or ill-considered reactions to a wide range of everyday behaviors in our culture. Once identified, the readers can take corrective action to modify behavior constructively. The contents of the
book are topical because most of us are unaware of the critical
behaviors which apply to a multiplicity of workplace environments. The volume is researched thoroughly. It is
priced reasonably for consumers.
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