Article 5EXKN 'They become dangerous tools': the dark side of personality tests

'They become dangerous tools': the dark side of personality tests

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Lisa Wong Macabasco
from World news | The Guardian on (#5EXKN)

In the documentary Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests, the discriminatory nature of a widely used tool is put under the microscope

Scrolling dating apps in 2015, Tim Travers Hawkins didn't know who his type was. He didn't even know what a type was. Hawkins, a British film-maker then new to New York, noticed something that was very different to people's profiles in the UK and that was the use of these four letters," he said to the Guardian. Curious, he looked it up. I was like, Huh, that's different'."

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