Ahh yes, the people giving out gouge on how to "beat" the Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory.
Aye yi yi.
You're not.
People love to "self select".
It truly amazes me how pilots spend hundreds of dollars on interview consulting firms, hundreds or thousands of dollars chasing job fairs around the country, hours and hours of networking, buy time in full motion sims and then on something that according to one poster in this thread this test wipes out 50% of the applicants, people throw up their hands and say there is nothing I can do. It's bizarre.
Industrial Psychologists are neither Rocket scientists or oracles or witch doctors selling black magic. They have sold a lot of Fortune 500 companies a product and a lot of HR departments have bought it. Your job as an applicant is to jump over one more hurdle that HR has put in your way, nothing more nothing less.
Here are some of the dumbest statements I have heard about these tests.
"There are no right or wrong answers."
Tell that to the people who got the tbnt letter.
"Just be honest"
Come on, these questions are not "have you ever had a speeding ticket?
Let me give you an one example of a question I had on aMMPI that has since been removed.
T/F I like tall women.
I answered T. It's the right answer. If you were to average the height of the women they would barely exceed 5ft tall. Is that dishonest? Of course not.
Look, it's not about "beating" the test. It's about passing it. And the people selling these tests to united and delta and IBM will tell you all day long that there is some sort of "secret sauce" that will detect whether a candidate is is being consistent or "gaming" the test. They have to, they are charging a lot of money for these tests. If you didn't pass the first time and you have and you have an opportunity to take it again, all I can say is that you had better figure out the right answers.
