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Wildly successful is a term that would be better applied to item response theory models, the Big 5 (and personality psychology more generally) are at the leeche
by disgruntledphd2 6y ago
Wildly successful is a term that would be better applied to item response theory models, the Big 5 (and personality psychology more generally) are at the leeches stage compared to them.
That being said, it's much much harder to develop measures when you rely on other measures of the same type to validate them, which is where personality testing is right now.
- infogulch 6y agoBy response theory do you mean behavior research by Skinner, Panksepp, etc? Yes, basically everything in personality psychology barely even registers compared to that, I agree that my comparison was too broad. A more reasonable statement might have been that Big 5 is wildly successful compared to other personality models. Thank you for the correction.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoNope, I meant item response theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item_response_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item_response_theory It's a much, much better method for designing and analysing questionnaires, and it is the foundation for all standardised testing (SAT, MCAT etc).