Psychometrics

this post is reprinted from the Google Cloud for Startups blog September 29, 2022 It’s no secret that many organizations and job seekers find the hiring process exhausting. It can be time consuming, costly, and somewhat risky for both parties. Those are just some of the experiences we wanted to…

having to find the best people from a huge talent pool as an interim manager, i found myself asking for personality scores via email over and over again. eventually, we built the software that we could not find elsewhere. — the landing page leads to a webapp which can be used by two types of users: applicants and hiring managers. because i dislike software that makes you log in multiple times (e.g. upwork requiring a separate email for employer vs. freelancer accounts), we chose a more elegant layout: everyone gets…

Do you ever wonder what makes people tick? What drives their actions, motivations, and attitudes? As a data scientist, understanding these intricacies of human behavior is essential for creating solutions that truly resonate with your target audience. That’s where psychometricians come in, shaking up the world of data science. Psychometricians…

One of the efforts to validate the internal structure is by conducting the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). But before that, here are the characteristics for doing CFA: test the hypothesis have a hypothetical model that is determined a priori factor has been determined In this tutorial we will use JASP…

Last month I was invited to deliver a lecture at University of Wollongong in Dubai about psychometrics, deep learning, and neuroscience…

Uher (2020) was published in regards to, not the field of psychometrics, rather selective practices within the psychometric field. I will be discussing why I disagree with their interpretation given in the title of their paper. Jana seems to think constructs are not referents. In an attempt to claim a…

Item discrimination is the degree to which responses on a particular test item can distinguish between an individual’s test performance overall. In general, greater discrimination is better as it tells us how well the item responses separate those showing higher vs. lower magnitude of some trait (e.g., content mastery). Though…

On Saturday I delivered the prestigious ‘Lotfi Zadeh Memorial Lecture on AGI, Neuroscience, and Psychometrics’ as the keynote for NaScon…