I came here to give you the Enderal Suggestion. Don’t think, just play it. Its one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. The first section can be a tad rough due to it being hars but once you get into the main city its only up from there. Highly suggest some kind of mage as they made the magic system very peak at high levels.

You are correct, especially about personality. Personality is a very very complex multidimensional construct. The only way we can sort of say someone has a specific stable personality is through a statistical mechanism called latent profile analysis. Even then, that is for figuring out general profiles in the population, not the individual.

What we typically do is look at either personality facets or profiles and do experiments to see how they moderate or mediate different effects such as job performance, well being, turnover intentions, etc.

If you want to look at the best scientifically valid personality assessment I’d suggest the HEXACO. There is no bullshit astrology, it’s all just psychology and math.

Which isn’t surprising to me. I personally am not a fan of cognitive ability testing because of that exact problem. There is too much adverse impact to justify it. A simple structural behavioural interview gets you about the same predictive power with far fewer drawbacks.

That’s completely and totally false. Please read the cited meta analysis, which is directly on that topic. What you proposed is literally the worst means of conducting selection outside of flipping a coin.

I don’t disagree. I detest the use of my science as a means to control people for capitalist interest. The reality however is that regardless of the captualists, it would be a shame if we didn’t understand how humans worked together.

Almost all the research we do indicates that the actions of the current economic system are harmful. Humans need to work less, have reasons to do things outside of money, have separations between their spheres of life, live with the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and belonging met. If you ever support things like DEI or equal opportunity for workers, those are practices championed by IO psychologist.

We are no more captured by the capitalists as the chemist making a drung to save lives sold for the cost of a house, the doctor working 80 hours while his patients debts mount, or the computer scientist who wanted to build great things but can’t afford rent if his paycheck wasn’t from Lockheed martain.

I try my best to pull my science in a humanist direction. We are scientists, we can discover, we can advocate, but we can’t prevent people from twisting reality to their whim.

Haha, don’t worry, we all make fun of them for pushing super hard with the NFL

Hey, Organizational Psychologist here, we are the people who make tests like this. I’ll try and provide a brief explanation. Let me first preface that the one in the meme is not a legit one and we dont use IQ as a metric in any cognitive ability testing. We do use cognitive ability testing and these tests are actually somewhat good for selection but they aren’t the end all be all. If you would like this is deeply discussed in this review by Sackett et al (2022): https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-17327-001

If you want to see a legitimate cognitive ability test, the one I’m most familiar with on the commercial market is by wonderlic: https://wonderlic.com/

Cognitive ability tests unfortunately have a number of issues and as you see from the comments a lot of confusion surrounding them (also the canonical post is hilarious as they are way overboard with their testing imo):

• you can practice for these tests, which is an ongoing problem for all standardized testing
• they are very associated with developmental tests for IQ which they only vaguely resemble
• they have more adverse impact than other measures, meaning they can be fraught with allegations of discrimination

An important thing for you or anyone else to consider is that these tests aren’t meant to be used in isolation and overall they only explain a fraction of your potential job performance. Selection is hard, its one of the most studied parts of my field but it’s basically an armsrace that has no end. If anyone would like to know more on the science, feel free to reach out.

Why did you put so much time in if you didn’t like it

Mine doesn’t show it, I’m on boost

Yeah you hit the problem on the head. Giving people the choice would break the survey methodology and invalidate the results. Random selection is the only way to ensure that respondents provide representative answers for the population.

That’s the short form. Remember the census is primarily a population count, they don’t need to ask everyone a bunch of questions to understand broad population trends.

Did you get the short or long form?

In late March, though, Ahmed’s prospects for staying in Canada changed after Ottawa passed Bill C-12, a sweeping asylum reform barring people from making refugee claims if more than a year had elapsed since their first entry into Canada. The law is retroactive to June 24, 2020, and applies to claims made on or after June 3, 2025.

This is a rather important detail the headline doesn’t mention. It appears the law change disproportionately impacts LGBTQ people, victims of domestic violence, and others who’s situations changed after moving here, but it isn’t an explicitly anti LGBTQ law as the headline somewhat implies.

These are sick, thanks for sharing!

As a social scientist, pre Chat GPT NLP was like opening a whole new world of possibilities. We could finally at scale analyze one of the richest sources of behavioural data in an empirical statistically driven manner.

Now, even as I do research with NLP to continue these goals, I can’t bring myself to every defend these tools. If they disappeared tomorrow, we’d lose a tool but we’d prevent so much undue suffering

Maybe I’m confused then over where this $20B figure is coming from? If the money the federal government is taking isn’t from a tax on oil companies, then we’re? From your statement it sounds like this money is existing taxed money by the province that then gets taken and sent to the federal government. I’m not sure that’s the case so please do explain further.

So are you proposing an increase to provincial taxation in exchange for a reduction in federal taxation? Also is financing the real barrier in the Western Provinces making these changes?

Ok, the question though is what do you want from that money? Is there something you find the federal government is obligated to provide but doesn’t from the oil money?

Medical care is a provincial issue, blame your province not the federal government

Also as a Ukrainian Canadian, I don’t think you have any idea about how close the two nations are and essentially how many Ukrainians are your neighbours if you live in the west.

Like an actual general intelligence test or a cognitive ability test? Neither should be used in a performance context though so that’s wild. Cognitive ability testing should only be used for selection not for performance the fuck.