realitygrill comments on On Enjoying Disagreeable Company - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 07 June 2010 12:53:50AM 1 point [-]

After all, it directly asks you about traits, with questions that are pretty obviously correlated with the results. It therefore seems to be a test of your opinions about yourself, rather than being an actual test of yourself.

I've yet to see a test that avoids this problem. I really don't understand why tests like this and the Aspergers one, which will obviously vary dramatically with your moods, are considered to have any meaning at all.

Comment author: realitygrill 17 June 2010 02:01:30AM 0 points [-]

Strangely enough, I'd only considered the 'validity' side - basically are the categories used universal? Somehow missed how biased self-reporting might be.