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Old 02-06-2008, 08:57 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sapiens
There are reliable, validated personality inventories available online. This is not one of them. (It still may be fun to take though).

The best personality inventory (in terms of empirical support) is probably the MMPI (the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). It was designed for clinical populations. You may have taken it from a therapist or if you interviewed for a position as a police officer (or some other job that is public safety related).

The Revised NEO Personality inventory developed by by Paul T. Costa, Jr. and Robert R. McCrae is also a good inventory and it was developed for "normal" populations. Unfortunately, it costs money. Another version of the Costa and McCrae inventory is available free and online here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/5/j5j/IPIP/

I've spent too much time reading personality research. So, I can't help myself. I have to comment on it.
I just tried the short form of that test and found it less accurate than the one in the OP for me. Some of their groupings seemed a bit odd.
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