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Rumblings of a Distant Drum
Author(s) -
McARTHUR CHARLES
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1992.tb01648.x
Subject(s) - outrage , psychology , blank , value (mathematics) , fertility , social psychology , sociology , political science , law , politics , computer science , engineering , demography , mechanical engineering , machine learning , population
The Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) was showing great evocative validity during career counseling, decades‐long predictive validity, and wide relational fertility, opening the door to theories describing the social mechanisms that bring about an assortative mating between individuals and occupational fates when, out of the blue, the SVIB was suppressed. First the Strong‐Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) and then today's Strong Interest Inventory (SII) were offered as its increasingly inadequate replacements. Apparently, sales had replaced science as the value guiding the changes made with each new test. Even so, why the classic SVIB was made the object of a book‐burning by a university press remains an inexplicable atrocity. Can this outrage be now, belatedly, undone?