送交者: Latino2 于 2005-1-13, 19:57:12:
老美高中阶段对学生搞职业能力测验， 根据测验结果，建议学生以后从事何类工作。老
中也该搞一哈， xj，牛腰客等就不会后悔当失足青年了。
最近，美国科学顾问理事会公布了一个“科学性格”调查结果。 “科学性格”调
查把科研人员分成四类：
１。 领导型
２。 组织型
３。 探索型
４。 苦力型
大伙看看自己属于哪种。
反正最不济了就当领导型。
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Naturejobs 433, 177 (13 January 2005); doi:10.1038/nj7022-177a
Scientific personalities
PAUL SMAGLIK
Naturejobs editor
Ever since a high-school career-competency test suggested that I should
consider a working future in something vaguely mechanical, I've been suspicious
of surveys that use standardized tests to chart one's working life. This
doubt might have something to do with my inability to open a bottle of wine
without causing serious bodily harm, or my ineffective attempts to tame
an incessantly running toilet, despite various jigglings, turning of bolts,
adjustments of chains ─ and frequent curses.
So a recent survey that claimed to measure different scientific personalities
elicited more than my usual amount of scepticism. Would the survey tell
scientists not to bother; that they were in the wrong profession? But after
close scrutiny, the results reported by the Science Advisory Board, based
in Arlington, Virginia, yielded some real utility.
The survey used questions to assign scientists to one of four personality
types: leader, organizer, explorer and enthusiast. Each personality type
has distinct characteristics that make them more suitable for certain aspects
of the scientific enterprise. Leaders are best suited to be lab managers,
institute directors and chief executives. Explorers are visionaries, less
inclined to organization and communication, but more inclined to pushing
the frontiers of science. Organizers are basically leaders, without a management
bent, methodically interested in data. And enthusiasts are the worker bees,
happy to follow scientists in the other three categories.
These divisions are useful for scientists who want to know more about themselves
and are keen to match up their next position with their own personality
─ which they could probably discern without taking the test. But the exercise
has helped me to make a decision, at least about my domestic future. I plan
to get a new corkscrew and to call a plumber.