One Difficulty That Early Researchers Encountered in Identifying the Good

question 58

Multiple Choice

One difficulty that early researchers encountered in identifying the good judge of personality was that ________.

• A) a good judge in one context was not always a good judge in other contexts
• B) clinical psychologists dismissed the findings, claiming good judgment of others required extensive training
• C) no one could measure personality objectively in the first place
• D) researchers did not have the statistical tools to study accuracy

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