| 'Test' is such a general term that one has to stress | | | | Questions of personality tests are almost always |
| what its meaning in the context of this site. Perhaps | | | | situation-based. The question puts the user in a |
| for this I find the definition of 'test' given on the | | | | particular situation and asks him how he would react. |
| Princeton University website as the most appropriate. It | | | | The user has to choose the closest option from |
| says "A test is a procedure for measuring knowledge | | | | amongst those provided. Simple? Yes it is, and |
| or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality of | | | | extremely effective. After all, how we react is a |
| a person." | | | | truthful indication of our personality. But one must |
| The marvelous thing about the IQ & personality tests | | | | always remember that there are never any right or |
| on 3SmartCubes, rather anywhere, is the fact that | | | | wrong answers, the same way there is never a right |
| they require no prior preparation on the part of the | | | | or wrong personality. |
| test-giver. No studying or reading up is required. Be it IQ | | | | In this respect, IQ and aptitude tests are obviously |
| or personality, these tests are supposed to measure | | | | different. Each question has to have a correct answer |
| you as you normally are. | | | | whose points add to the users score. Some tests |
| By their very nature these tests are objective or | | | | even have negative marks for wrong answers. Your |
| multi-choice. From the given choices the candidate has | | | | final result, be it your IQ score or an aptitude grade, is |
| to simply mark the one he thinks is correct or most | | | | always calculated against the general population. For |
| appropriate to him. Backend, unknown to the user, his | | | | e.g. a person is labeled 'intelligent' only because the |
| answers are taken and passed through various | | | | intelligence of the average population is lower than his. |
| formulae and algorithms to derive at a result. These | | | | Hypothetically, if the rest of the population were to |
| formulae and algorithms are based on established | | | | have intelligence equal to his, then he would be labeled |
| psychological theories and results obtained from the | | | | 'average'. |
| tests of thousands of people. | | | | |