A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes

Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by Nition on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:05PM (#27099745)

Related to this, often I see a survey question along the lines of say, "which cup do you think would hold more water" with one that looks like it'd hold a lot more than the other. I'm never sure whether to answer with the meta-analysis of the fact that it's a survey question included in my answer.

That is, if I saw the two cups in my example naturally I'd say the obvious one holds more water, but often there'd be no point in putting it as a survey question if the obvious answer was the case. Therefore I'm almost sure the correct answer is the seemingly wrong one.

So I put that as the answer and get it right. But for whoever's running the survey, I'm probably messing up their results by meta-analysing the questions.

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Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by tikhonj on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:14PM (#27099819)

I don't know if this question is an example, but people intentionally include "obvious" questions in surveys to check whether people are actually paying attention to the survey. There's a name for these, I just don't recall it at the moment—which shows you I don't have any survey-design experience myself :).

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Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by jaredsohn on Sunday May 09, 2021 @06:12PM (#27100306)

According to a Google search, "Attention check questions" sounds like the right term

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Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by disgruntledphd2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:05AM (#27104060)

Also known as lie scales and have been around since at least the 50's. (Eysenck was first, I believe).

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