{"id":695,"date":"2013-05-06T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=695"},"modified":"2013-05-06T13:18:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:18:38","slug":"psychometric-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/05\/psychometric-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobseekers&#8217; psychometric test &#8220;is a failure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2013\/5\/6\/1367840247533\/A-Job-Centre-in-Glasgow-010.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes <a title=\"Jobseekers' psychometric test 'is a failure'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2013\/may\/06\/jobseekers-psychometric-test-failure\">people admit they&#8217;re wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An American psychology organisation has told a UK government agency to <strong>stop using a personality test on jobseekers because it is a failure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Behavioural Insight team, or &#8220;nudge&#8221; unit, which was created by David Cameron in 2010 to help people &#8220;make better choices&#8221;, has been accused by the Ohio-based\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.viacharacter.org\/www\/en-us\/viainstitute\/about.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">VIA Institute on Character<\/a>\u00a0of bad practice after civil servants used VIA&#8217;s personality tests in pilot experiments in Essex despite being refused permission to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a3520,000-a-year Cabinet Office unit run by\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2013\/feb\/05\/david-halpern-government-nudge-unit\" target=\"_blank\">Dr David Halpern<\/a>\u00a0was told by VIA \u2013 whose members devised the personality test \u2013 to <strong>stop using the questionnaire because it had failed its scientific validation<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the spirit &#8211; if there&#8217;s no scientific validation, you should warn others about how this raises efficacy issues, meaning it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people admit they&#8217;re wrong:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,52,97],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pseudoscience-antiscience","tag-uk","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}