What Listening to This Episode Says About Your Personality

May 4, 2022 · 1h 16m 33s
What Listening to This Episode Says About Your Personality
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Like astrology and psychics, online personality tests generally use the Barnum effect to trick you into thinking they have something meaningful to say. They're tricksy like that. But they have...

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Like astrology and psychics, online personality tests generally use the Barnum effect to trick you into thinking they have something meaningful to say. They're tricksy like that. But they have also been used for extremely nefarious reasons, and in one instance, an implementation that lead to the beginning of the end of democracy in America. Also, we take some personality tests in real time.

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Links and sources:
- https://lesley.edu/article/personality-development#:~:text=Personalities%20are%20based%20on%20subjective,ones%20that%20are%20increasingly%20complex.
- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-dark-history-of-iq-tests-stefan-c-dombrowski
- https://www.kqed.org/news/11781032/a-landmark-lawsuit-aimed-to-fix-special-ed-for-californias-black-students-it-didnt#:~:text=U.S.%20District%20Judge%20Robert%20Peckham,that%20has%20such%20a%20ban.
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10203631/Adele-reveals-magazine-personality-quiz-divorce.html
- https://nobaproject.com/modules/the-replication-crisis-in-psychology
- https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/09/16/ten-famous-psychology-findings-that-its-been-difficult-to-replicate/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-accurate-are-personality-tests/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/the-internet-is-one-big-personality-test/531861/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/cambridge-analytica-facebook-quiz.html
- https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/in_search_of_the_ur-quiz.php
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