ChristianKl comments on Useful Personality Tests - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 11 February 2014 01:03:46PM *  12 points [-]

We could do a group personality test on LW with 200 questions on personality and then hunt for correlations.

Comment author: badger 11 February 2014 08:22:44PM 4 points [-]

If this were to happen, here are some scales possibly worth including:

Comment author: peter_hurford 11 February 2014 08:45:46PM 1 point [-]

There's also much smaller Big Five tests -- going as small as ten items.

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 February 2014 09:58:59PM 0 points [-]

Are those lists copyright free?

Comment author: badger 12 February 2014 03:33:23AM 1 point [-]

The first two links are from a public-domain pool of personality scales. Shorter versions of the Big Five are also available there. The original dark triad scale is free to use. I'm not exactly sure about the copyright status of items described in academic papers, but are presumably covered under fair use.

Comment author: Dorikka 11 February 2014 07:06:02PM 4 points [-]

I would suggest using fewer questions to minimize selection effects.

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 February 2014 09:59:53PM 2 points [-]

What kind of selection effects do you mean? That not enough people would want to invest the time to answer 200 questions?

Comment author: Oligopsony 12 February 2014 12:56:29AM 3 points [-]

And that willingness to invest such time might correlate with certain factors.