>In a message dated 97-11-07 22:36:15 EST, Jerry Tangren wrote:
>
><< I do want to
> defend those of us who are global rather than analytic. We both
> need each other and to understand each other. >>
>
> Jerry brings up a thought that had not occurred to me. I have been
>married to a global person for 40 years. (Global in Jerry's sense, not manic
>depressive which, with my medical background, is what it first meant to me).

I'm in the opposite situation (only 20 years, not yet 40), but I'm now
just beginning to appreciate why I should be listening to my analytic thinker.
I had to wait for a son who studies personality types to explain it to me.

> Obviously an analytical person learns best from an analyticial person. Is
>the reverse true, Jerry?

Depends what you need to learn. We need to listen and learn from both types.

> When I was in my surgical training one of the surgeons who taught me had
>participated in a psychological study of various medical specialists on
>condition that he get a copy of the results. The surgeons were on one end of
>a continuum with the psychiatrists at the other end. This must have been
>analytic vs global.

Based on published studies, an analytic psychiatrist is a very rare
item.

> Certainly we need both types but I think I would rather have an
>analytical person writing up a Rare Bird Report.

That's probably why I've never submitted a Rare Bird Report in over 30 years
of birding. Although I've received lots of how-to tips over the years, I'm
hopelessly analytically challenged.

>Bob Norton
>Joyce, WA

Thanks for your comments!



Jerry Tangren <tangren at wsu.edu>