People may also be concerned that there's a sinister purpose for the test, e.g., for screening. I was skimming through a translation of Seneca, and in the open

People may also be concerned that there's a sinister purpose for the test, e.g., for screening. I was skimming through a translation of Seneca, and in the opening dialog, the participants come to an agreement, along the lines of: "Just to get things straight, we're talking about the real stuff that the philosophers believe in, not the crap that the people believe in, right?" The subject matter had to do with death and the afterlife. The thing that interests me is that someone's view on the purpose of the test might actually bias their answers and thus the results as well. So even if the test was valid in a controlled research or clinical setting, in a business setting it's a different test. Is intelligence a confounding variable?