I just got a Strong Profile for a client whose theme code is IRS. Her scores are:
- Investigative = 64 (very high)
- Realistic = 57 (very high)
- Social = 64 (high)
The colored bar for the Realistic theme is much shorter than the colored bar below it, Social. It looks like the computer listed the themes in the wrong order. Can you help?
A lot of people wonder about this. The scores compare respondents to the combined General Representative Sample of men and women, and the interpretive comments (very high-high-etc.) compare respondents to just their gender. The General Occupational Themes are rank ordered by gender, so on this profile the two “very high” themes are listed first, followed by the “high” Social theme. The key here is that women tend to score much lower on the Realistic theme than they do on the Social theme, so it takes a much lower score for a women to be considered “very high” — in this case, 57. You will see this most often with women who have R in their theme codes and with men who have A in their theme codes. –JG
