What Is A Psychometric Test?

Psychometrics or tossing a coin?

Selecting individuals by interview produces nothing more than almost chance results.

Interviews are an 80% poor predictor of performance on the job.

Interviews are costly, biased and tend to clone existing personality types, for good or ill

Using Tests

Good tests are those that do deliver and therefore are valid; bad tests are those that don’t deliver and are therefore invalid
A test is only as good as the person doing the interpretation

Types of Tests

Example 2: Verbal Reasoning

Verbal Analogies

Letter is to word as sentence is to:
(a) verb (b) paragraph (c) phrase (d) book?

Over is to under as below is to
(a) beneath (b) beside (c) above (d) submerged?

Example 3: Numerical Critical Reasoning

Number Sequences

What is the next number in the sequence?
(i) 1 4 7 10 13 16 ?
(ii) 3 9 27 81 243 729 ?
(iii) 1 4 9 16 25 36 ?
(iv) 1 1 2 3 5 8 ?

Thursday, February 03, 2005