It's pretty wild to think about this being run on a bunch of people for serious reasons, because I'm reading through the items and it seems easy to game, in that the generally "morally right" choice seems obvious.

"I tend to forgive the wrongs I have suffered." Oh yeah. For _sure_, institutions who are in charge of assessing me, I would _definitely_ tend to forgive those wrongs...

Hopefully this would be one of many instruments used...

Plus with error around things like maybe not-so-necessary English issues for lower-level readers: "There is poor comfort in revenge." Phrasing?

Items requiring more analytical thinking to understand than other items: "If I opposed the election of an official, then I would be glad to see him or her fail even if their failure hurt my community."

Just to say--love the research, really curious about the application...

Those are good criticisms. My (2nd hand) understanding is that in institutional settings where there would be incentives to lie on a self-report the grading is done on a clinical instrument by a professional who educes the answers through conversation rather than stating them plainly. At least, that's how the Hare psychopathy checklist is done, and subjects who would score high on that are disproportionately likely to want to game such an instrument.

Thanks, that's really interesting. The professional aspect is a little bit concerning TBH. From what I learned in instruction on psychometric instruments in the past I think I'd be inclined to request that some random sample of N professionals carry this out. Especially to the degree that some individual's institutional future hangs in the balance...

Ideally, a psychometric test has a validity scale (e.g. the MMPI)

I have colleagues (lawyers) who make a killing doing nothing more than suing various companies for “infringement” of these copyrighted “models.”

This is a gross oversimplification, but someone mentions d-score in a textbook without licensing, and suddenly you get a lawsuit demanding you reprint every single textbook (or you can make a retroactive licensing payment—how convenient).

Just wait for NFTs on the alphabet.