The business world now sets great store by personality tests when assessing job applicants. But the evidence for their predictive value is frequently overstated and wrongly assessed.
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Blinkhorn, S., Johnson, C. The insignificance of personality testing. Nature 348, 671–672 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/348671a0
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