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Dangers of Personality Testing

Dangers of Personality Testing. Alina Bayborodin April 24, 2012. Weakness of Individual Differences. The Person and the Situation By Lee Ross & Richard Nisbett Imagine John’s scenario…

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Dangers of Personality Testing

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  1. Dangers of Personality Testing AlinaBayborodin April 24, 2012

  2. Weakness of Individual Differences The Person and the Situation By Lee Ross & Richard Nisbett Imagine John’s scenario… “Even scientists who are most concerned with assessing individual differences in personality would concede that our ability to predict how particular people will respond in particular situations is very limited.”

  3. Caution with Personality Testing If personality doesn’t always predict behavior, how can we think personality will predict work performance? Personality testing cannot predict performance in the workplace

  4. Preview • Unreliability of Personality Testing • How Personality is Assessed • Harm of Personality Testing

  5. Problems of Personality Testing • Unreliable: • hasnot gotten beyond describing behavior • Not valid: • poor models focusing on broad personality traits, rather than narrow personality traits • faked answers by candidates

  6. Process of Personality Testing (First Generation Personality Testing, 1949) Cattell Model Today’s personality testing simply can weed out employees who may commit fraud or steal aitestingservice.com

  7. Harm to Companies & Employees • To Companies: • Disregarding possible good employees • Lawsuits because of wrongful personality testing • To Employees: • Over-testing in personality may cause mental harm

  8. Personality Testing Profiling behavioral tendencies is one thing, predicting future behavior is another Personality testing still doesn’t effectively reflect good employees from bad ones, and should not be so highly relied on in the workplace

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