Sex life questions were not prying
By Xu Chi |
November 11, 2010, Thursday
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QUESTIONS about the sex lives of would-be civil servants sitting an exam in Sichuan Province were not intended to pry into their personal lives, officials insist.
Instead, they were simply part of a psychological test, said officials from Sichuan Province Professional Testing Authority.
Officials claimed that several questions on the subject of sex in the province's annual civil servant recruitment exam were only targeting 739 candidates who were competing for public security positions, according to the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily.
Many candidates sitting the exam last Saturday were reported to be embarrassed by a question asking how satisfactory their sex lives were.
Some also said they were puzzled about the relevance of questions about sex to the jobs they were applying for.
A number of candidates thought it was part of a polygraph test.
The newspaper said the testing authority issued its clarification as some media reports had misunderstood the questions and their context, casting the examination in a bad light.
Officials said the psychological test was important to show the exam takers' mental status, and played a vital role in recruiting public security workers who would cope with being placed under great pressure.
The officials said the questions in the psychological test were designed from a question bank that had been used by domestic and overseas psychology experts for a number of years.
"Candidates who were not married could choose to leave the answers blank, and that would not affect their final score," the West China Metropolis Daily quoted one official as saying.
Instead, they were simply part of a psychological test, said officials from Sichuan Province Professional Testing Authority.
Officials claimed that several questions on the subject of sex in the province's annual civil servant recruitment exam were only targeting 739 candidates who were competing for public security positions, according to the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily.
Many candidates sitting the exam last Saturday were reported to be embarrassed by a question asking how satisfactory their sex lives were.
Some also said they were puzzled about the relevance of questions about sex to the jobs they were applying for.
A number of candidates thought it was part of a polygraph test.
The newspaper said the testing authority issued its clarification as some media reports had misunderstood the questions and their context, casting the examination in a bad light.
Officials said the psychological test was important to show the exam takers' mental status, and played a vital role in recruiting public security workers who would cope with being placed under great pressure.
The officials said the questions in the psychological test were designed from a question bank that had been used by domestic and overseas psychology experts for a number of years.
"Candidates who were not married could choose to leave the answers blank, and that would not affect their final score," the West China Metropolis Daily quoted one official as saying.
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