Question

If a personality survey with high internal consistency includes two different questions related to the personality dimension of agreeableness, then which of the following is true?

Answer 1

Question:

If a personality survey with high internal consistency includes two different questions related to the personality dimension of agreeableness, then which of the following is true?

 

A) It is impossible to predict how people will answer the second question based on how they answered the first question

B) If people give an extreme answer to the first question, they will tend to give the opposite extreme answer to the second question

C) People will tend to give dissimilar answers to both questions.

D) People will tend to give similar answers to both questions

E) If people give a moderate answer to the first question, they will tend to give an extreme answer to the second question

Answer:

The correct choice is A)  

Explanation:

The essence of having two different questions against a particular trait is to see to what degree the questions elicit the correct answer, (or help us understand the attributes of the test take). If it was possible to predict how both questions would be answered, then the purpose is defeated from the start.

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