Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
Very Bad Wizards
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Are the Predictive Validity Tests Doing a Good Job?
Personality psychology almost died entirely at the end of the sixties because of something we've talked about before, called the situation as critique. And it turns out that there is a lot of predictive validity in impersonality tests. It depends on what you're trying to predict, what behaviour you're tryingto predict. So so the power of the situation trumps personality.
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