What Is One of the Problems with Tests That Measure

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Multiple Choice

What is one of the problems with tests that measure personality traits?

• A)They are usually too short.
• B)Scores for personality traits may not be good predictors of how individuals behave in particular situations.
• C)Two measures of the same trait usually do not correlate well with one another.
• D)They are seldom psychometrically sound.

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Definitions:

Observations

Data collected or measured during an experiment or survey. They are the individual values recorded during the statistical study.

Fair Die

An idealized die where each face has an equal probability of landing up, implying fairness and randomness in the outcome.

Expected Proportion

The predicted likelihood of an event occurring in a specific category or group.

Dependent

In statistics, referring to a variable that is assumed to depend on or be caused by another (independent) variable.