personality test

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noun Psychology.

an instrument, as a questionnaire or series of standardized tasks, used to measure personality characteristics or to discover personality disorders.

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Origin of personality test

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby personality test

personality cult, personality disorder, personality formation, personality inventory, personality profile, personality test, personality type, personalization, personalize, personalized medicine, personal liberty

How to use personality test in a sentence

Devaux is looking for a job, and we asked her to complete a trial of a 90-second personality test, which assesses candidates on the Big Five personality traits.
Looking for work? Here’s how to write a résumé that an AI will love.|Sheridan Wall, Hilke Schellmann|August 4, 2021|MIT Technology Review
So it’s something that they should look out for in a personality test and to take their time.
Podcast: Beating the AI hiring machines|Anthony Green|August 4, 2021|MIT Technology Review
That’s why many personality tests, such as the Big Five, give people options from which to choose.
We tested AI interview tools. Here’s what we found.|Sheridan Wall, Hilke Schellmann|July 7, 2021|MIT Technology Review
They’ve tried everything from stopwatches and personality tests to machine-learning algorithms and pipetting robots.
Fast forward|Cara Giaimo, SM ’15|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review

More recently, he asked everyone in the lab to take personality tests, so they could learn to build on each other’s strengths and work together better.
Fast forward|Cara Giaimo, SM ’15|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review
And, especially when it comes to the middle, personality counts.
Why This Liberal Hearts Huckabee|Sally Kohn|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Apparently, the company “failed to properly test its systems.”
Best Buy Punches Back at Amazon|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If it was the United States, the operation will test the bounds of international law.
Cyberwar on North Korea Could Be Illegal|Shane Harris|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“We won the war,” the Fox News personality proclaimed last week.
Why I’m for the War on Christmas|Asawin Suebsaeng|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However, on reaching Spain, the magic of the Emperor's personality soon restored the vigour and prestige of the French arms.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
The most promising of the methods which have been devised are cryoscopy, the methylene-blue test, and the phloridzin test.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The phloridzin test consists in the hypodermic injection of a small quantity of phloridzin.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
It represents an engaging personality, in which vivacity and sensibility are distinctly indicated.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement

Medical definitions for personality test

personality test

A test, usually involving a standardized series of questions or tasks, used to describe or evaluate a subject's personality traits.