I took the personality test for practice and got mostly low scores, what’s wrong?
First, our personality tests are designed for people who in the “job applicant” frame of mind. A “job applicant” often will try to figure out what the “”best” answer is and then pick it in order to present themselves in glowing terms. For example: “never late for meetings, work is always perfect, never get annoyed with people, always work hard”, etc. So, if you are responding to the inventory in a very “honest” frame of mind, your scores will be low. Second, sometimes the better answer is on the left and sometimes it is on the right. When people are taking a personality just to get a feel for how it works and how the scores will turn out, sometimes they are not as careful as a real job applicant would be. Averaging in scores for a “wrong” answer here and there in the set of numbers will bring the overall score for that dimension way down. Last, we are the first to admit that personality inventories are not perfect, but they are valid in most cases. Being a valid predictor means that th
