Friday, December 23, 2005

What does "Alice in Wonderland" have to do with psychological testing?
  • I took a similar psychological test 30 years ago - maybe even the same one mentioned in the article - and the personnel manager told me that I scored "low in masculinity." I asked him for specific examples, and he said "This question: Would you rather be a florist or a coal miner? Women say florist, gay men say florist, hetero men say coal miner. You said florist." I responded, "I still feel the same. I don't really have any special love of flowers, but I never heard of any fuckin' florist dying of pink lung."
  • Despite this exchange, or maybe because of it, I got the job.

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