Take both of the following personality tests online:
- 16 Personalities: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
- Truity: http://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test
• Write a paper that addresses the following:
o the nature of both personality tests:
§ What types of questions did each test ask?
§ How were you prompted to answer these questions? Did the answer options make sense
for the questions asked, or did they make the test difficult in some way?
o the results of both personality tests:
§ What did each test say about your personality?
§ Do you agree with the results of these personality tests? Do they accurately describe
your personality?
o the design of both personality tests (refer to Ch. 2 for information on validity & reliability):
§ Which of the tests do you think is a more valid test of personality, and why? Be sure to
correctly use at least two (2) of the following terms in your answer: face validity,
predictive validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity.
§ If you wanted to assess the internal reliability of these personality tests, how would you
do it?
§ If you wanted to assess the test-retest reliability of these personality tests, how would you
do it?
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