Psychometric Testing

Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

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What a crock of **** this is. I'm sure "personality plus" is not a phrase outside this domain.

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I also not that most of these words are synonyms and they're effectively asking the same question a million times.
 
Yeah, a lot of the time they are asking the same thing in different ways. I find them a load of crap tbh.
 
Is this for the Police? I thought most larger organisations had moved away from this kind of 'testing' due to it being a bit, well, rubbish.

Maccy, your blog is interesting but brief and out of date. Well written though :)

e : Burnsy, can you ban Maccy please?
 
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Moses said:
Are you practicing for a psychometric test? Lolocaust.
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I'm not practising. It was the actual test.

Moses said:
I've always assumed they ask similar questions multiple times so they're basing conclusions off multiple pieces of data (rather than relying on one question to conclude someone's a sociopath, or something), and/or because people react differently to different situations (you could be super sociable at work, but less so when meeting new people, or whatever), and/or to try and catch people trying to manipulate the results by pretending to be something they're not (if they do so in an inconsistent way).
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The questions are very, very similar and all pretty much in the same context, so I don't see how it can really come to any meaningful conclusions.
 
[FnG]magnolia;24099228 said:
Maccy, your blog is interesting but brief and out of date. Well written though :)

e : Burnsy, can you ban Maccy please?
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Thanks, and yes I haven't written for a while due to time/effort.
Burnsy can't ban me, only Admins can ban Dons. You can go quietly now...
 
I love these, especially when you do one over 3 days so that "management" can determine what type of a worker you are. A busy one, that's what type. Even busier now I'm dicked about with this.
 
Moses said:
The fact you can't see how they can come to any meaningful conclusions just points to your lack of understanding, no? I seem to recall you studied computer science, right? I bet there's loads of CS stuff that a layman wouldn't see the point in, or understand what relevance it holds to real life... but you do, because you have a background in it/have learnt about it. That doesn't mean whichever CS things are wrong or stupid.

I just can't imagine large, successful companies would bother with the tests they do, unless they were pretty damn sure about the usefulness of the results they're getting. It's not as though it's just David Brent types who use these things... they're used by the big grad schemes, etc, who invest a lot of money in finding the best 'talent'.
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I agree, perhaps I am missing something but then you should also know, that just because it's popular doesn't mean it's true. The NHS funds homoeopathy, doesn't mean it works. Many companies can get caught in the sales talk rather than actually having hard evidence of effectiveness.
 
I had to do one of these for a job application a few years ago. Turned out there were 150 questions to answer! So after spending 15mins answering the first 50 accurately, I grew impatient and then just random clicked on the remaining 100. Got offered the job though.

So yeah, utterly pointless
 
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