More Psychometric Testing

1000 New Ways to Assess Your Personality, Creativity, Intelligence and Lateral Thinking

Introduction

The British Psychological Society defines a psychometric test as: an instrument designed to produce a quantitive assessment of some psychological attribute or attributes. A meaning of the word metric is measure, and psycho means mind.

Psychometric tests are basically tools for measuring the mind and are used frequently by employers, as part of their selection process, because they believe that such tests assist them considerably in providing an accurate assessment of whether an individual is able to do the required job and whether the person's character is suited to the work.

Psychometric tests have existed since the turn of the nineteenth century, although attempts to measure the differences between the psychological characteristics of individuals can be traced back to Hippocrates at around 400 BC, who attempted to define four basic temperament types as optimistic, depr ... read full excerpt from More Psychometric Testing: 1000 New Ways to Assess Your Personality, Creativity, Intelligence and Lateral Thinking ebook