wedrifid comments on On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 19 October 2011 05:45:35AM 1 point [-]

Of course, since the Openness scale has reliability, you can make predictions about how someone would respond to one question from the scale if you know what they would respond to another item.

And this is the central point of the whole thing. They aren't meant to represent a deep meaningful biological reality. Just clear correlations that are useful.