it purports to measure conscientiousness, and it measures that by how much money you make and how often you work, which have nothing to do with acting according to your conscience in a world where the highest-relevance acts are speech-acts
its ‘agreeableness’ metric is supposed to be about niceness and harmony-making, but people who reveal their disagreements for the sake of resolving them get sorted as argumentative and thus low in agreeability, and there’s no separate metric for niceness in the model, so as a worldview FFM basically says you’re either dogmatically conformist or a jerk
Which is actually a lot of things wrong with it, considering that’s two of its five factors.
Are those genuine flaws with the model, or is the terminology just suboptimal? Put another way, if you know someone’s 5 factor conscientiousness and agreeableness scores, how useful is that for predicting their behavior?
FFM is great except for two things:
it purports to measure conscientiousness, and it measures that by how much money you make and how often you work, which have nothing to do with acting according to your conscience in a world where the highest-relevance acts are speech-acts
its ‘agreeableness’ metric is supposed to be about niceness and harmony-making, but people who reveal their disagreements for the sake of resolving them get sorted as argumentative and thus low in agreeability, and there’s no separate metric for niceness in the model, so as a worldview FFM basically says you’re either dogmatically conformist or a jerk
Which is actually a lot of things wrong with it, considering that’s two of its five factors.
Are those genuine flaws with the model, or is the terminology just suboptimal? Put another way, if you know someone’s 5 factor conscientiousness and agreeableness scores, how useful is that for predicting their behavior?