Psychology Validity & Reliability | Measuring Personality Accurately

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]The answer is that the research on it's really poor. It's weak. Mhm. So, again, I'll get to part B in a second. Um so, when when you're talking about um assessing personality Mhm.

[00:00:13]or assessing anything that measures something, you want two things to be true.

[00:00:19]It measures what it says it's measuring.

[00:00:22]Mhm. And we um we call that [clears throat] validity. Mhm. It's valid. And it consistently measures the thing that it thinks it's measuring. Mhm.

[00:00:32]So, we call that reliability. It's reliable. So, we have validity and reliability. Does this make sense?

[00:00:37]>> Yeah, totally.

[00:00:38]From a psychological standpoint, a research standpoint, it doesn't meet those tests very well. It doesn't It's not super reliable. So, if you were to give this test to Kevin um now and then Kevin 5 years from now, it might be a different thing.