| I'm a psychologist, and I game personality tests for fun. The MMPI is harder than the Myers Briggs, but not that difficult. Additionally its really only optimal for clinical samples, at which it is very good. However, everyone in the field knows that these tests can be gamed, the only open question is how many people game them consistently. You can probably estimate the proportion of social desirability exhibited in job interviews by comparing to non-job situations (such as a sample matched on all relevant covariates (whatever they are) from the general population. Nonetheless, believing in personality tests as an accurate indicator of personality is as misguided as believing that Facebook represents the social graph of all its daily active users accurately, i.e., somewhat misguided. And I am aware of lie scale, and they are trivial if you actually read the question. Protip: If a question says always or never, its probably designed to trip you up. I do agree that personality tests are more accurate than this thread makes them out to be, but they are certainly not as useful as your comment implies. |
Is there anything you've got offhand that I can read further about this? I didn't know you could actually game them.