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Through a Glass Darkly: Spies and Spying; Week 5 - Period 3

Aly was wandering around the classroom as the students arrived. Some might notice that she seemed rather restless. Once everyone was seated, she made her way back up to the front of the classroom and smiled brightly.

"Good morning, all. For those of you who are excessively attached to your syllabi, I apologise. Today's class is not about Elizabethan England. We'll get to that in a week or two, but for today, I'd rather talk about something more interesting."

She grinned mischieviously. "It's the rare spy who will not have to, at some point, either recruit another agent or agents or 'convince' - some would call it bribe, but that's such a harsh word - a foreign agent or other person to work for you instead of their current employer. So today, we're going to talk about one way to do that.

"In order to be able to determine what's the most effective way to convince a person, you have to have some idea of who they are and how their mind works in order to tailor your pitch. Making a play for someone's personal code of ethics? Isn't going to help so much when he is much, much more interested in money. Therefore you're going to need to be observant and trust your instincts to be able to assess their personalities quickly and determine how you can make the approach.

"One of the ways to do this - and most definitely not the only way - is by classifying personaliy types. I'm under the impression some of you have used the Myer-Briggs system before? This test classifies people into 16 different personality 'types.'" She made a face. "Yes, I know, it's overly simplistic, and I'm sure none of you wish to be classified - at least not in ways that don't involve secrets. But on the other hand, it gives you a nice framework to tentatively fit people into and a way to start understanding what motivates them."

"So today, we're going to give it a try. I want everyone here to take the Myer-Briggs test. See what you get, read the description, and I'm going ask you to write me a quick paragraph telling me if you think your 'type' is accurate or not." She grinned. "After that, it's the fun part. I want you all to talk with each other - at least two other members of the class - and without flat-out asking what their type is, I want you to try to classify them into one of the personality descriptions and try to make a recommendation on what you think would convince them to switch sides or work for you. You don't have to just use what you know about them in class. You all go to school together, use whatever information you have at your disposal. And if you like, you can try to guess my type as well."

"Remember when we talked about developing assessment skills by practicing? This is one of the ways you can do that. Even people you're casually meeting - or friends you've known for years - you can try to fit them into the framework, see what makes them tick or how they're different from the standard guidelines.

"Oh yes, and I know I generally have nothing against slight deceptions, but for this class, let's all help each other by telling the truth, hmm? It does no good for your classmate to try to learn while you prove how sneaky you are by misleading them." She grinned. "At least not for today. We'll be able to be sneaky next week."

"Finally, we're a third of the way through the semester. If you've missed any classes thus far, I need you to come see me after class or in my office hours."

[OOC: If you're going to try to lie to a classmate about your personality types, do me the favour of pinging me in the OOC thread. Thanks to the Handbook of Practical Spying for giving me the idea and to

jarodpretends for allowing me to steal his links. Oooh, also, there are odd things going on at my job today. I'm not entirely sure how much time I'm going to have to play while I'm there so Aly pings may be slower than usual. Or they may be perfectly normal. I honestly have no idea yet. OCD is Up! Have fun!]

ETA: Additional temperament information can be found here.

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Eric Weiss

Bridge Carson

S.T. Anders

Teddy Altman

Molly Hayes

Seely Booth

Jake Gavin

Kaoru and Hikaru Hitachiin

Schrodinger

Setsuna Sakurazaki

Jim Ellison

Draco Malfoy

Aeryn Sun

Hamlet Dane

Maia Rutledge

Ask questions, take notes and pass them

Anders was doodling in the margins of his notebook during the lecture. But since he was actually making a really good effort to pay attention in class, his doodles were suffering badly.

It would've taken a lot of careful scrutiny, squinting, and a very vivid imagination to figure out that they were rough sketches of motorcycles.

Boy really wanted some wheels of his own, or something.

Bridge glances over at Anders, and grins mischievously for a second when he see what his friend is drawing.

Scribble, scribble, scribble. When is Setsuna ever not taking notes for this class? But she seemed to be bouncing in her seat a little as she does so; her workout earlier had her really energized.

Take the profile here (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm).

Say what you got and if you think it's accurate or not.

(Pretend you don't see your classmates for the purposes of the below exercise)

Anders read over his results for a while, chewing a pencil in perplexed thought. He came out as an ESFJ, with the following qualitative analysis:

moderately expressed extrovert
slightly expressed sensing personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality

"For all I get told I'm too sensitive about things, I thought I'd come out as more than a slightly expressed sensing personality . . ."

Teddy looked at his results, ENFJ.

* distinctively expressed extrovert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* distinctively expressed feeling personality
* slightly expressed judging personality

Teddy shrugged, "Makes sense."

Bridge takes the test and comes up as ENFJ.

very expressed extrovert
very expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality

"Sounds like me, I guess," Bridge says.

Setsuna pondered over her results:

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
67 25 38 56

You are:

* distinctively expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* moderately expressed judging personality

She found the use of the term "expressed" interesting...

Aeryn turns out to be a ISTJ. Whatever that means.

*moderately expressed introvert
* distinctively expressed sensing personality
* distinctively expressed thinking personality
* moderately expressed judging personality

Which gets an answer of "Um. All right."

Your Type is ESFP
Extroverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

Weiss nods. "Makes sense."

Seely tilted his head at his results.

ENFJ

Extroverted Intutive Feeling Judging.

"I guess that's me."

Jim couldn't really help but snicker. Protector Guardian? He wondered if Blair would have to add that to his notes.

Hamlet took the test and looked over his answer. INFP. It seemed to fit.

Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving

Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
56 38 25 67

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
moderately expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

moderately expressed feeling personality

distinctively expressed judging personality

When you hand in the paragraph above, Aly gives you a handout (http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mb-types/mb-types.htm) with much more information on the different types of personalities to use to assess your classmates.

Try to talk to and assess at least two other people in the class.

Anders looked over the handout and wondered if he was the only one who thought his results were kind of wonky . . .

Setsuna frowned as she looked over the descriptions. Maybe it was her poor English messing with her again, but she wasn't sure if she really understood it....

She'll follow the same non-deception rules as everyone else.

As you do.

After class, she's around for a good bit for any questions or concerns.

Molly stayed after class to talk to Aly about missing the last two classes.

Aly looked up at her with a smile. "Molly, how have you been?"

Molly smiled back. "I've been okay. I'm sorry for missing the last two classes. I had to go home for a while and I just got back yesterday. What do I need to do to make up for missing those classes?"

"Welcome back then," Aly replied. She thought. "If you get the notes from two weeks ago from a classmate, just make sure that you understand the basic encryption we discussed. Last week was a practical class on lockpicking and pickpocketing." She looked questioning at Molly. "Any experience with either of those?"

Molly smirked. "I learned how to pick locks this summer, but no experience with pickpocketing." The memory of the man who had tried to force her to learn once made her grin more.

"Come into my office hours sometime then if you like," Aly replied. "It's not a bad thing to have a bit of experience with." She raised an eyebrow with a slight grin.

"Since no one is trying to make me learn so that I can steal for them, I wouldn't mind learning to pick pockets," Molly said. "I'll be sure to stop by you office soon."

Secret agent man, secret agent man
They've given you a number and taken away your OOC.

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