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Catherine Werner
How would you respond if the result decides whether you get the job? “I would like to be a deep sea diver” or “I think about my mistakes more than my successes”? In personality tests, test subjects click through hundreds of such statements, to which they can respond with “Strongly Disagree”, “Reject”, “Agree” or “Strongly Agree”. These include statements such as “I only enjoy a game when I win”, “I understand why stars twinkle”, and “I have a hard time acting naturally when I am with strangers”.