Z_M_Davis comments on The Machine Learning Personality Test - Less Wrong

25 Post author: PhilGoetz 04 August 2009 11:36PM

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Comment author: Z_M_Davis 05 August 2009 02:14:35AM 8 points [-]

As far as I know, there are no personality tests constructed in the proper way, which would be to give a lot of questions and then perform either factor analysis or PCA on the answers in order to discover from the data what the true dimensions of personality are.

But I thought that was exactly how we got the Big Five.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 August 2009 03:39:13AM 1 point [-]

Glad to hear it! I will fix that, then.