The Fakeability of Personality Measurement with Graded Paired Comparisons
Niklas Schulte,
Lucas Kaup,
Paul-Christian Bürkner
et al.
Abstract:This study compares the faking resistance of Likert scales and graded paired comparisons (GPCs) analyzed with Thurstonian IRT models. We analyzed whether GPCs are more resistant to faking than Likert scales by exhibiting lower score inflation and better recovery of applicants’ true (i.e., honest) trait scores. A total of $$N=573$$
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participants completed either the Likert or GPC version of a personalit… Show more
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