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The following text was forwarded to us via email in 2003: Analysis: This item doesn't really offer any specific falsifiable claims other than the claim that the above-reproduced personality test was created, proffered, or endorsed, by Dr. Phil. That claim is false: Who is Dr. Charles Vine? We don't know — the only references to that name we've found are bylines crediting him as the author of this test. Is this a real personality test? It might be in the vaguely general sense that one can make some very broad generalizations about personality types based upon the way people say they stand, walk, work, interact with others, etc., and be right somewhat more often than random chance would dictate, perhaps. But this test is far more of a parlor trick best used for nothing more than entertainment purposes — real clinical psychological tests (i.e., the kind folks pay a lot of money for, such as the MMPI) are much more complex, more varied, and longer, and their scoring methods and interpretations are not publicly disclosed in order to maintain their viability. The best way to regard this test is to consider it similar to a horoscope or a fortune cookie: all of them make broad, general predictions which could seemingly apply to a great many people. The skeptical dismiss such predictions as random shots that occasionally hit their marks (in the same way that a stopped clock is right twice a day); the credulous marvel over their accuracy, find ways to make the results apply to themselves, and overlook the parts that don't fit.
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