I have heard there are some mental tasks on ability scales that dont seem to fit my picture of what should be there. How did that come about?
Most people find the MSCEIT has “face validity” that is, overall and individually, the tasks appear to measure EI. Still, some people find the test also includes some less obvious tasks, like reading emotions in landscapes “Pictures”, or drawing analogies from emotions to physical sensations “Synesthesia.” Some people have wondered how those tasks got there. The quick answer is this. First, for reasons beyond the scope of this posting, procedures for psychological measurement generally encourage measuring an ability with more than one task; therefore, several different tasks were employed in measuring each area of emotional intelligence. Second, researchers experimented with many different kinds of tasks in an attempt to measure all four hypothesized areas. Factor analysis indicated that a number of tasks, such as “Pictures” and “Synesthesia” ended up performing very well, and are parallel to the more obvious tasks. Because they worked so well in measuring EI, these tasks were retained
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