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Personality Test Faking Actually Improves Performance Prediction

Apparently, smart people lie so much on personality questionnaires it becomes detectable through factor analysis, and because it’s smart people that do it, this “Ideal-Employee Factor” enhances predictive validity. Perhaps the most common objection to using personality questionnaires in employee selection is the issue of social desirability and faking. Understandably so, after all, who wouldn’t […]