taw comments on The Machine Learning Personality Test - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 05 August 2009 02:00:28PM 0 points [-]

And if we use lack of correlation between questions as indicator of their randomness, PCA won't give us any factors at all for truly random ones.

That's one of the reasons I don't have any faith in the Big Five Personality Traits.