Quiz from: Sjoberg, Lore Fitzgerald. The Book of Ratings. Three Rivers Press: New York, 2002.

1. You're taking a personality quiz on a bus when you reach your destination. What do you do? a) Get off the bus, then stand at the bus stop and finish the quiz before you go on with your day. b) Stash the quiz for finishing later. c) Leave the quiz on the bus, stuff it away, who cares? I was just killing time. d) Forage for insects and larvae to eat.

2. You come across a personality quiz in a magazine in your dentist's off ice, with several answers circled. What do you do? a) Look for a different personality quiz with no answers circled. After all, I wouldn't want my responses to be influenced by the person before me. b) Take the quiz. Who cares what someone else answered? c) Look around for Highlights for Children. d) Raise young in small collectives, with little concern for actual parentage of the cubs.

3. You've found a new "special person" in your life, but he or she doesn't like taking personality quizzes. What do you do? a) Dump this person. Anyone who doesn't understand personality quizzes doesn't understand me. b) Live with it. I don't need someone else's validation to take personality quizzes, and maybe with time we can take them together. c) Continue seeing him or her. There are more important things than personality quizzes. d) Live in the savannahs of southern or eastern Africa.

4. Your favorite magazine publishes a "special" theme issue that, for some reason, has no personality quizzes in it. What do you do? a) Write a letter to the editor demanding an explanation and a credit for the price of the issue. b) Pick up an issue of another, similar magazine that does have a personality quiz. c) Enjoy whatever the publisher put in instead of a personality quiz. d) Raise the hair on my mane and emit an unpleasantly musky fluid from my anal glands when threatened.

5. You take a personality quiz and it says you're a much less nice person than you think you are. What do you do? a) Accept its pronouncement and resolve to improve myself. After all, if it weren't accurate, it wouldn't have been published. b) Don't worry about it too much, as long as other personality quizzes assure me that I'm an okay person in other ways. c) Nothing in particular. I don't take the analysis of someone who has never met me very seriously. d) Use the abandoned burrow of another animal for my den.

SCORING: Count the number of "a," "b," "c;' and "d" answers. Mostly "a" answers: You are a Personality Quiz Purist. You take your personality quizzes very seriously and don't let anything come between you and them. Mostly "b” answers: You are a Personality Quiz Pollyanna. You always look on the bright side of your personality quiz experience and don't let anything reduce your enjoyment. Mostly "C” answers: You are a Personality Quiz Pooper. You don't care about personality quizzes at all, for some reason. Mostly "d" answers: You are an aardwolf.

Reliability Discussion Review of ways to establish reliability Test-retest Split-half Alternate Versions Is it possible to establish reliability for this test? What generalizations can you make about reliability from this example? How is this test similar to “personality” type tests that appear in magazines?

Validity Discussion Review of ways of assessing validity Content (What does it purport to measure) Criterion / Predictive (Does it make predictions) Construct (Is to based on any theoretical constructs) Is it possible to establish validity for this test? Can it be used in any way that is useful? Can it be used in any way that is appropriate or inappropriate?

Standardization Discussion What does standardization mean? How do you standardize a test? Could this test be standardized? What does standardization tell us about the relationship of one score to others? How accurate are statements like: If you score ____ it means you are _____ How important is it to be able to make comparisons between what one individual and another scores?

Overall meaning and usefulness of tests What are the different uses of tests? For the individual For an organization What relationship is there between reliability, validity, standardization for evaluating the usefulness and meaningfulness of tests?

Do reliability, validity, and standardization make a test meaningful? How does lack of reliability, validity, or standardization make a test less useful or meaningful?