He got 1%, we can't hire him

Re:He got 1%, we can't hire him by bentcorner on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @02:16PM (#6291673)

> The reason why this works is because while people will answer "Would you consider yourself hard working?" with "Always" or some other unrealistically gamed superlative, they won't realize that other questions that are seemingly unrelated are highly correlated with that quality

Can you provide a deeper example? I'm honestly curious - what sort of question is innocuous enough to be answered honestly, yet useful enough to provide information? (i.e., do slackers like the color yellow or something?)

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Re:He got 1%, we can't hire him by kronusaturn on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:14PM (#6292033)

This is actually part of the so-called "bogus pipeline." Test-takers are told that the test can detect any attempt to lie, causing them to answer the questions more honestly than they would otherwise. The MMPI does detect inconsistent and unrealistically extreme answers, but it's not quite as foolproof as claimed above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline

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Re:He got 1%, we can't hire him by crucini on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @08:31PM (#6293569)

Here are some:

http://www.physicschick.com/pole/2012xxxx/psych.txt

By googling those, you can go deeper into the rabbit hole.

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