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Chapter 6 of 10

Personality

What is measurable.

The five factors

Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism emerge repeatedly from studies across cultures and predict some life outcomes modestly.

  • Conscientiousness is the strongest single predictor of job performance, and still modest.
  • Traits are tendencies across situations, not rules about any occasion.

Popular types

Myers-Briggs and similar type systems are widely used and poorly supported: low retest reliability and forced categories where the data shows continuous variation.