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<blockquote data-quote="GGWP" data-source="post: 55017" data-attributes="member: 93">[ATTACH=full]9979[/ATTACH]The problem with tests like these is that the wording of the questions are such that subjective interpretation can cause large differences in how they are answered regardless of if people are abjectly psychopathic. My issue with psychological tests is that, in my experience, they lack the capacity to record subtleties in subjective experience. Just an example, the question:8. People who refuse to break rules out of principle are foolish; they’ll never get ahead.You could rate this highly as somebody that loves to break rules that is justifying their craftiness &amp; psychopathic tendencies, or you could rate it just as high as a person who really likes to follow rules but has observed that rule-breakers, to their dismay, seem to progress much further in life. A high score on this question would be read by a psychologist as indicating higher antisocial tendencies even though in the latter example it would be an observation indicative of a dismayed worldview rather than antisocial psychopathy. I think many questions are worded in such a way that that they can be approached from too many angles, leading to responses that do not robustly measure what they intend.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GGWP, post: 55017, member: 93"] [ATTACH type="full" width="758px" alt="1761731362405.png"]9979[/ATTACH] The problem with tests like these is that the wording of the questions are such that subjective interpretation can cause large differences in how they are answered regardless of if people are abjectly psychopathic. My issue with psychological tests is that, in my experience, they lack the capacity to record subtleties in subjective experience. Just an example, the question: [B]8. People who refuse to break rules out of principle are foolish; they’ll never get ahead.[/B] You could rate this highly as somebody that loves to break rules that is justifying their craftiness & psychopathic tendencies, or you could rate it just as high as a person who really likes to follow rules but has observed that rule-breakers, to their dismay, seem to progress much further in life. A high score on this question would be read by a psychologist as indicating higher antisocial tendencies even though in the latter example it would be an observation indicative of a dismayed worldview rather than antisocial psychopathy. I think many questions are worded in such a way that that they can be approached from too many angles, leading to responses that do not robustly measure what they intend. [/QUOTE]

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