Retta Poe wrote:
>
> Hi, Peter -
> I'm not sure whether you are asking for scholarly sources on unvalidated
> measures of personality, or actual articles with unvalidated measures of
> personality. If the former, I don't have any references to provide, but I may
The former ;( I'm interested in background information on the
"popular-press-test industry": what is the typical qualification of the
test authors, are there any quality standards, anything based on
empirical data (at least the norms), ethical standards? Why are people
-which people?- so fond of taking pseudo-tests; positive and negative
effects of feedback, etc. Maybe, even a critical evaluation of regular
tests vis-a-vis magazine tests. ;) --When I once searched for examples
for constructing an online-version of a questionnaire, I noticed that
non-scientific personality tests usually do not use the same, dull
Likert-type response format (e.g., -2:Strongly disagree ... +2:Strongly
agree) for all items, but rather a format with statement stem and
different completions as the response options.
> be able to help with the latter, as I have done a critical-thinking project on
> evaluating "popular press" personality tests in my personality theories
> course.
Please, more on that. How did you evaluate them, upon which criteria?
> If you are having trouble locating popular-press articles with personality
> tests, I suspect that the problem you are having is not with the search terms
> you are using but WHERE you are searching. I believe that PsycINFO searches
You already provided search terms: searching with google for
"popular press" testing
provided a page (http://ericae.net/news.htm) on "Assessment and Testing
in newspapers and magazines" --though ;( , turned out as collection of
links on what media reports about _professional_ testing. Well, I'll
keep searching... ;)
Peter
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