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Re: Techwriting and Personality

Subject: Re: Techwriting and Personality
From: Scott Turner <sturner -at- airmail -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:54:51 -0500

Hi everyone --

I saw something interesting on the net -- and thought I'd throw it out for
discussion. It's definitely a much more fluffy discussion than the legal/ethics
thread (which I enjoyed tremendously). I read that technical writing is a good
career fit for those of writers with the ISTJ personality type (this is Myer's
Briggs by the way). I found that to be interesting since my type is somewhere
between INFP and ENFP -- the exact opposite of ISTJ. Any thoughts on the
validity of the ISTJ-techwriting claim?

These tests are psuedo-scientific. It is a fuzzy approximation, and they do not yet have the ability of being able to accurately estimate success.

Having said that, and before the flames arrive, let me also say that when comparing success in situations where specific behavior is known to be more beneficial then the more extreme the divergence from the ideal model the more accurate the prediction.

Psychology is almost more art than science. Predictive and analytical models have a long way to go before they are acceptable for use.

Scott

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