Psychometric testing
Hah!
I took one of those once. One of the questions was something along the lines of "Do you sometimes have feelings of panic?".
Context matters. I'm sitting in somebody's office in Cambridge taking the test. I live and work in a part of the UK with an ongoing terrorist campaign, the job I do doesn't endear me to said terrorists, my place of work has been bombed by them, I even have to go to places where I have to have an armed police or army escort. How do you compare the answer to that question with someone who works down the street from here?
Adding to that they also gave one of those IQ tests that we used to have for 11 plus when I wor a nobbut lad. The guy came back from running it through his optical reader marking machine with a puzzled look on his face saying "Have you been practising taking IQ tests?" I was probably looking equally puzzled trying to think how I might have got one wrong. It was a time when our son was just coming up to take his 11 plus but I still thought the test seemed inordinately straightforward.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
