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Re: The Use of Personality Assessment in Team Decisions

Personality tests, even ones published by psychologists and widely used in business, are notorious for being at worst scams and at best generic and unreliable. Especially if you are using it for drive team selection and your team knows this, the test will simply turn into a competition for who can best mimic the answers of your desired candidates. If you use the test results for general assessment you may find unnecessary grouping that may contribute to the division along test results of your team. Personality test results are often no more than fortune cookies handed to you by someone in a lab coat. I would recommend a look at Forer's Fallacy of Personal Validation. I would recommend against the use of personality tests on your team.
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