Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!unc!goodrum 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 Article-I.D.: unc.102 Posted: Tue Aug 6 18:21:01 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 20:45:31 EDT References: <1528@utah-gr.UUCP> <1375@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 25 >> 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