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Publisher:
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Release Date:
September 1, 2008
Genres:
Non-Fiction
ISBN:
eBook
ISBN
Print
9781579127817
Kindle
No
ISBN
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Reviewed by
Jennifer Ray
Review Posted:
December 2008
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In this day and age, personality tests abound on the internet and many of us
can’t resist taking a few of these every now and then. When I spotted THE
BIG BOOK OF PERSONALITY TESTS FOR WOMEN: 100 FUN-TO-TAKE, EASY-TO-SCORE QUIZZES
THAT REVEAL YOUR HIDDEN POTENTIAL IN LIFE, LOVE, AND WORK, it looked
like a fun and entertaining way to pass a little time.
So I ordered the book. When I received it, I tucked it in my tote bag to take
with me to a friend’s house for a dinner party one night – just us girls. We
took a number of the quizzes from this book together.
The quizzes are billed as entertaining, which is good, as they are certainly not
based on any scientific analysis or reasoning. But for our group, every quiz we
took had several questions which had no answers that befitted any of our group,
forcing us to choose the closest possible match amongst the multiple choice
answers.
Consequently, we all soon became frustrated with these tests. It felt like we
were left completely out of whatever demographic this book is intended for,
although it is simply billed as being personality tests for women. Our group
contained a nicely diverse collection of women, and still we found that all of
us were frequently not considered in the possible answers.
Also, the tests are skewed to always look for a positive outlook. While I am
one of those annoying ‘glass-is-half-full’ people, even I found this rather
dismaying, as if the fact that I didn’t fit into the mold set forth by the
author in this book I were failing in my life, career, or relationships somehow.
All in all, I found the book less than entertaining, as did my companions. It
is well written, but does not promote outlooks and profiles that the average
woman will easily identify with.
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