(Fwd) Re: NNPI

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Wed, 5 Feb 1997 08:59:47 +0100

Now we've even got the reference!

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From: Sharon Rae Jenkins <JENKINSS@TERRILL.UNT.EDU>
Organization: University of North Texas
Subject: Re: NNPI
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> Many years ago I came across something called the NNPI or No
> Nonsense Personality Inventory, a parody of the MMPI. It has
> such 35 items as:
>
> I salivate at the sight of mittens.

This appears to be the North Dakota Null-Hypothesis Brain Inventory,
published on p. 128 of Don Byrne and Kathryn Kelley's _An introduction
to personality_, 3rd Ed. (1981), Prentice-Hall.

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