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17 Dec 2009, 1:41 pm

Nightsun wrote:

The question is: "you never do x"

The answer are:

0% of times
25-50% of times
50-75% of times
75-100% of times


That seems to be the best way to think about it, but then again, you don't know what x is, so you do know if the answers are in ascending or descending order.
Hmm, haha I wonder if I should say what job this is for.



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17 Dec 2009, 6:50 pm

The folks who write the questions on Job apps ( or the folks that interview you) make no pretense of being fair.

So assume that they will ask unfair questions in order to probe your head and get at your personality and character.

They probably want to know how decisive you are.

In a career course I took they told us that interviewers will often ask some really bizarre sounding questions like " which animal do you see yourself as: a rabbit, a lion, or an elephant? And why?

Its a ruse to get you to describe yourself in a revealing way.

The "right" answer ( ie the best one to give in most job interviews) is 'an elephant' because elephants are 'team players', or atleast that how they are portrayed on PBS and the Discovery Channel!

In a real interview I had once they asked me "what is the job of a boss". The first thing that popped into my head was "to tell you what to do". But then I hedged thinking "i dont want them to think I dont take initiative". So I gave a longer more confused anwer. An okay answer. But later I realized that my first answer was exactly they wanted.

The point is- to figure out what they want.
So what you need to do is figure out what kind of decision making is best for that particular job your applying for- and then claim to be that kind of decision maker.

Probably not too impulsive, but too dithering either, might be the best way to go.



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17 Dec 2009, 8:29 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
Meta wrote:
I think the word "never" is the problem. Absolute never? Then only one counter example would do to disagree.

But then I don't understand why there ere two "levels" of disagreement?

A statement is either true or false; if it is false I disagree.
To disagree "strongly" does not make it more of less false. It's an inappropriate qualifier.

I would select "disagree", because I disagree with all the other options.


I strongly agree with this post. :P

I think those Aspie questionnaires are also quite difficult to answer in a way that really reflects the subject's position on the matter - they're not usually as bad as this example but I always wanted to tick between the boxes, and would sometimes have to (practically) lie in order to convey the truth....like "do people tell you that you are X?" - people very rarely tell me anything about myself (chickens!) but if I myself was pretty sure that I was X, I'd tick the box.


Really I think there's no substitute for answering questions in one's own way, as fully as possible, to take into account all the caveats etc. - but we get reduced, codified stuff because it makes the test-giver's job easy.

At school I used to do worse on multiple-choice questions than I did on traditional essay questions.........for example I might remember de novo the equation relating gas volume to pressure and temperature, but if I had to pick out the correct one from 5 similar equations, just reading through them would confuse me, and I sometimes felt they were giving away parts of the answers that I knew, which was helping those who didn't know, at my expense.


Yep. I know what you mean. I'm glad I'm not the only person who doesn't constantly have people telling me about myself. Those questions leave me completely stumped. (And doesn't it depend on the kinds of people you have in your life? Some people love to constantly point out critiques of each other. Other people would consider that bad manners, and won't say anything.)

Seven years ago, when my son was being evaluated for AS, I had to fill in a bunch of multiple choice questionnaires. I ended up writing a few pages of footnotes to explain many of my answers, because so many of them needed clarification. A few years later, I had to fill out something similar to get his IEP qualification renewed, and I simply could not choose the answers. His special ed teacher had to sit down with me and "help" me fill out the form. It wasn't much help, though, but ultimately it got the job done, which was to ensure that he still qualified for services.



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18 Dec 2009, 3:50 am

unreal3x wrote:
This is a question on a job application,

"You never make major decisions quickly
-Strongly Disagree
-Disagree
-Agree
-Strongly Agree "

......

What do you think?


I'd say "Disagree" at the best, or "Agree"...


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