Why do we have so many trait terms and feel so comfortable navigating the language of traits if actual correlations between traits and individual actions (typically <0.30, as Mischel 1968 persuasively argues)1 are undetectable without the use of sophisticated statistical methodologies (Jennings et al. 1982)?
I get the impression I can predict specific bad behavior pretty reliably, implying that folk wisdom can achieve markedly higher correlations that psychometric traits.
I get the impression I can predict specific bad behavior pretty reliably, implying that folk wisdom can achieve markedly higher correlations that psychometric traits.
I find it amusing that I can quote a paper on how 5-10 cognitive biases lead us to think that there are stable predictable ‘character traits’ in people with major correlations, and then the first reply is someone saying that they think they see such traits.
Such papers come from a field of science whose claims to be scientific, whose claims to be a field of science, are far from universally accepted
Since its claims to be scientific are weak, any contradiction between its claims and common sense should be interpreted to its disfavor, and in favor of common sense.
I get the impression I can predict specific bad behavior pretty reliably, implying that folk wisdom can achieve markedly higher correlations that psychometric traits.
I find it amusing that I can quote a paper on how 5-10 cognitive biases lead us to think that there are stable predictable ‘character traits’ in people with major correlations, and then the first reply is someone saying that they think they see such traits.
I see.
Such papers come from a field of science whose claims to be scientific, whose claims to be a field of science, are far from universally accepted
Since its claims to be scientific are weak, any contradiction between its claims and common sense should be interpreted to its disfavor, and in favor of common sense.