McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests

Post by BriggyDwiggs42 » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 12:20 AM UTC

mordechai9000 wrote: post #10

senkora wrote: post #7

> Paradox's "Traitify" product, which uses the strange slides to lump applicants into "Big Five" or "OCEAN" personality groups, rating them on how open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic they are. For the record, the correct answer is always to be low on neuroticism and high on everything else. The role doesn’t matter; that is always the “ideal” personality and any deviation is a defect that will on…

Many years ago, barely out of high school, I took a test for a temporary warehouse stock picking job. The test was primarily concerned with the applicants' attitude to authority and violence. Oh, and theft, of course. Many questions were repetitive, and used slight variation in wording or reversed meaning to ask the same things over and over again. So, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you agree with these statement…

Post by kelseyfrog » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 7:16 AM UTC

kevinventullo wrote: post #38

JR1427 wrote: post #33

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With these kinds of tests, which have seemingly absurd questions with obvious desirable and undesirable answers, I have always wondered whether what is being analysed is not the face value answer, but something more nuanced. For example, people answering questions honestly might answer them slightly differently to people who are lying and trying to get the correct answer. E.g. To the question "how often do you get an…

They’re not. I have found that the dumbest possible interpretation is the correct one in this case.