Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ...
by disgruntledphd2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:08AM
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To be fair, Costa and McCrae did a lot of great work on the Big 5, but they really didn't like it when SEM/CFA didn't really support their theory.
In fact, they liked it so little that they invented Procrustean rotation so that they could make the factors come out the "correct" way.
Once I discovered that, I paid a lot less attention to the Big 5.
Also, I haven't checked the source papers, but that all blue stuff could come from a general tendency to agree with the questions/put a positive spin on that. I do know that not all personality measures are balanced on positive vs negative questions, to remove this bias (life satisfaction methods are almost certainly not balanced in this way).
In fact, they liked it so little that they invented Procrustean rotation so that they could make the factors come out the "correct" way.
Once I discovered that, I paid a lot less attention to the Big 5.
Also, I haven't checked the source papers, but that all blue stuff could come from a general tendency to agree with the questions/put a positive spin on that. I do know that not all personality measures are balanced on positive vs negative questions, to remove this bias (life satisfaction methods are almost certainly not balanced in this way).