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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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