It’s What You Ask and How You Ask It: An Itemmetric Analysis of Personality Questionnaires

摘要: Items from personality questionnaires have long been the butt of humorists and jaded graduate students. What makes these satirical items so funny is that they are instantaneously recognizable as having correct form yet their content patently absurd. The fact succeed jokes suggests at least for those familiar with scales there some standard forms items. This chapter describes three sets formal item characteristics demonstrates psychometric quality depends not only on but also form.