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

Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by disgruntledphd2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:20AM (#27104165)

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.

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Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by infogulch on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:52AM (#27107400)

By 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.

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Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:58AM (#27115035)

Nope, I meant 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).

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