Questions tagged [test]
Questions pertaining to the evaluation of performance through formal or informal means, as well as the scoring of such evaluations.
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How valid is Lumosity's Brain Performance Index and what normative information is available?
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There is a test called Lumosity's Brain Performance Index.
A sample profile of scores might be:
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How to calculate IQ score based on raw score and adjust for age?
I am having a hard time grasping how IQ scores are calculated. I think it has something to do with their age score ratio multiplied by 100.
Say I have a test that holds 30 questions. How would I ...
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How are Raven's Matrices scores converted into age-adjusted IQ?
There are IQ tests based only on Raven's matrices. I wonder how a raw score on such a test is "scaled" to an IQ result. As we all know, IQ results depend on the age of individual tested. So ...
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Innate personality tests: do they exist? If not, why?
A personality is developed by innate factors and by the things that happen in your life, but how would your personality be if you either had received the same amount of positive and negative stimuli ...
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Free online intelligence test with norm table, high reliability, and must be printable?
I am looking for a general intelligence test which meets the following requirements:
available online for free
there is a table which translates "points" to IQ (I don't want a hidden online ...
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What is a validated single-item measure of mood?
Has anyone validated, proposed or tested a single-item state-based positive affect or happiness measure? I am particularly interested in something for tracking mood every day.
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To what extent is time to complete an intelligence test incorporated into the IQ score?
In this previous question on scoring IQ tests the OP asked about the effect of speed of test, but it was a bit peripheral to the core question. So I thought I'd ask it as a separate question.
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How do psychologists ensure they are measuring innate intelligence and not just education?
Certain groups perform worse on IQ tests than other. How do psychologists ensure that those differences aren't purely related to differing levels of education between those groups?
How do we know ...
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Why might a person get widely varying scores on different online IQ tests?
Online IQ tests often yield wildly varying results (say 60 - 150). These are actual values obtained by repeated measures. It is puzzling, because it's such a wide range. How can the same person be ...
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DISC correlation with Big Five personality
Apparently DISC (dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance) is a kind of personality test.
When/where is it used and how does it correlate with Big Five?
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Is there an open-source / free official Myers-Briggs assessment I can adopt? [closed]
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I've got an idea for a web site that uses one's Myers-Briggs type as part of the value.
I've seen various web sites offer "quick quizzes" to assess one's MBTI, but I'm not sure how ...
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Public domain scientific intelligence test available for use in research
The IPIP is an example of a public domain scientific personality inventory that can be used for research.
Are there any good public domain scientific measures of intelligence?
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Do not ...
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Are there any cognitive test (or test suites) available on the iPad?
I find the IPad to be a great piece of hardware that is easy to bring along and that has an intuitive touch interface. This would make it an ideal platform for many cognitive tests such as n-back. As ...
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Measuring the adoption of norms
I'm trying to make a survey and I'm having trouble to find a scale to measure the adoption of norms.
The people who fill in the survey have to think about a situation in which they were ashamed. For ...
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Are there any standard tests to measure psychopathy?
While looking into another question on how to measure the adoption of norms, I came to wonder whether there are any standard tests to measure psychopathy.
What are the accepted standard tests to ...
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Is there any standardized test / questionnaire to measure frustration?
I'm looking for a well-established standardized test to measure frustration (level) of humans. Is there such an instrument?
I'm looking for a relatively short test that assesses frustration level at ...
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Can a person be brilliant even though slow at resolving problems?
Can a person be very intelligent, able to solve difficult problems if given enough time, yet really a slow thinker? Especially if nervous. Could such a slow thinking brilliant person get all the ...
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Why are the Big Five factors of personality correlated?
One of main characteristics of Five Factor Model is that factors are not orthogonal as in some other personality models.
Why it is tolerated that those factors are not independent?
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Can a shorter IQ test be devised that provides a more approximate measure of IQ?
Disclaimer: I am not a student of psychology, just an interested guy - but here goes anyway...
IQ tests usually contain dozens of questions and take considerable time. I think this is because such ...
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Why would I be asked to count backwards by 3, from 100 in a psychological test?
On an initial mental health consultation with a psychiatric nurse practitioner, I was asked, among many other odd questions, to count backwards by three. 100, 97, 94...
This was quite a number of ...
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Updated list of the most used and reliable quantitative tests in Psychology
I studied Psychology some years ago and ended up as a programmer. Now, I'm working on a personal side project to build an API to serve correction for different psychology tests.
Since I moved out of ...
