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Christian Organizations Should Reconsider Using the Intercultural Development Inventory

July 13th, 2021 | 15 min read

By Heather Peterson

If you’ve ever taken the Intercultural Development Inventory, a psychometric assessment administered at multiple secular and Christian organizations, you may have sensed that there’s more to it than your ability to get along with people of other cultures. In a group discussion, a friend at a Christian college stated he was concerned that it undermined Christian theological principles. The IDI administrator from another Christian college, who was taking the mic around the room, responded, “that’s what I would expect a white male to say” and moved on to someone else with a raised hand.

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