Personality Description

Descriptive Statistics

The Big Five

The “Big Five” refer to the way personality psychologists conceptualize the five broadest categories of personality. You can read more about the Big Five here.

Descriptive Statistics

mean sd median min max
Extraversion 41.24 19.46 42.5 2 75
Openness 62.82 20.28 57.0 14 98
Negative Emotion 43.84 21.82 42.5 11 88
Conscientiousness 54.26 20.56 53.5 14 93
Agreableness 41.55 19.33 39.0 13 86

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The Myers-Brigg

Descriptive Statistics

mean sd median min max
Extraverted 48.34 28.14 47.0 1 98
Intuitive 67.00 26.29 72.5 11 99
Assertive 67.13 25.41 72.0 8 99
Judging 43.24 29.76 35.5 1 99
Thinking 57.11 28.36 62.0 1 97

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Predictive Statistics

Question 1.

Is there a relationship between the Myers-Brigg and Big Five Measures of Extraversion?

A Linear Model

(Intercept)         d$E 
      17.83        0.48

Question 2.

Which measure (Big Five or Myers-Brigg) is a better predictor of real-life?

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The Big Five Are Reliable?

Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(1), 117.

The Big Five are Valid?!

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