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TABLE 2.4 (CONTINUED)

Interests

For each occupation below, ask yourself: Would I like that work or not? If you would like it, draw

a circle around L. If you would dislike it, draw a circle around D. If you would neither like nor dis-

like it, draw a circle around N. In deciding on your answer, think only of the kind of work. Don’t

consider the pay. Imagine that you have the ability to do the work, that you are the right age for it,

and that it is equally open to men and women.

L means LIKE; D means DISLIKE; N means NEITHER LIKE NOR DISLIKE

1. Forest ranger L (+) D (–) N (0)


2. Florist L (–) D (+) N (+)

Personalities and Opinion

Below is a list of famous characters. After each name draw a circle around L, D, or N to indicate

whether you like that character.

L means LIKE; D means DISLIKE; N means NEITHER LIKE NOR DISLIKE.

1. Daniel Boone L (+) D (–) N (–)


2. Christopher Columbus L (–) D (+) N (+)


3. Florence Nightingale L (–) D (+) N (+)
   Read each statement and consider whether it is mostly true or mostly false. If it is mostly TRUE,
   draw a circle around T. If it is mostly FALSE, draw a circle around F.


4. The world was created in 6 days of 24 hours each. T (+) F (0)


5. Love “at first sight” is usually the truest love. T (+) F (–)
   Introvertive Response

Answer each question as truthfully as you can by drawing a line under YES or NO.

1. Did you ever have imaginary companions? YES (–) NO (+)


2. Do you worry much over possible misfortunes? YES (–) NO (+)


3. As a child were you extremely disobedient? YES (+) NO (–)


4. Do people ever say that you talk too much? YES (+) NO (–)
   Source: Terman and Miles (1936).

women are supposed to know more than

men would be scored as feminine; conversely,

giving a correct response to an item about

which men are supposed to know more than

women would be scored as masculine. For ex-

ample, consider the first item on the informa-

tion subscale shown in Table 2.4. Answering

that a marigold is a flower would be scored

as feminine, whereas answering that a mari-

gold is a stone would be scored as masculine.

The emotional and ethical response subscale

was scored such that being feminine meant

getting angry when seeing others treated un-

fairly and being masculine meant getting an-

gry when being disturbed at work.

There were no assumptions about

the basis of these sex differences. Terman

and Miles (1936) left the cause of the sex

differences—biological, psychological, or

cultural—unspecified.

A few years later, Hathaway and

McKinley (1940) developed the Minnesota

Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).

It eventually included an M/F scale that

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