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From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "The Invisible Partners"
Message-ID: <102@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 18:21:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 18:21:01 1985
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Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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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]
	 
	I'm not surprised at this at all. When I was in the ninth grade, I
was taking one of those dumb "how to be a person"-type classes, and we were
given a MMPI. It turned out that I was highly feminine. I sort of expected
this, because I was one of those kids that would rather read a book than
be out playing ball. I still felt a little bad, until I found out that
EVERY OTHER GUY IN THE CLASS was classified as "highly feminine".
	
Cloyd Goodrum III
Univerisity Of North Carolina