What personality traits do people who live to 100 tend to share? A Spanish study interviewing 19 centenarians found eight recurring characteristics, and several of them point toward something more actionable than genetics.
Could an AI infer your personality just from the way you write and speak? A 2023 study put the idea to a rigorous psychometric test. The results are more nuanced than either enthusiasts or sceptics might expect.
Intelligence and personality have long been treated as separate domains. A sweeping 2022 meta-analysis of over 160,000 participants finds they are more meaningfully connected than most research has suggested — but only if you know where to look.
Well there it is: another year down and another year to look forward to. This brings to an end this series on
For this month’s myth, the last on the topic of psychometrics, I have chosen a slightly different approach. I’m coming out in
New Zealand is a fantastic country. This statement will come as no surprise to many but it is often taken for granted
As a student of psychology, I was taught that meta-analysis exceeded all other forms of research. However, his view has been brought
Two recent papers have questioned the assumption that validity scales in personality testing, such as social desirability, address inherent problems of self-report
In this final blog, I want to look at the psychometric properties of ipsative measures and also look at the supporting evidence for ipsative tests.
There are two reasons that people recommend ipsative measures for selection. The first is a misbelief that they are less resistant to faking and therefore produce more valid results. The second is that marketing is fundamentally about having a point of difference.
