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medicine with me James Tico. Our topic this week is personality testing.

If I'm interviewing you and I reject you, I can come up with the best possible explanation of why you weren't a good fit for that job and I can say you didn't seem confident or you don't have expertise or you were rude or you didn't make eye contact. However with AI you can always reverse engineer the decision

making.

Science is supposedly helping people to find their ideal profession using questionnaires modeled on the so-called big five personality traits.

But can a computer really tell us who we are?

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. If you've recently applied for a job, you may have been asked to fill out a personality test.

From banks and consultancy firms to fast food outlets,

they're increasingly being used as a way to improve efficiency

and perceived fairness in recruitment.

The most common tests used for these purposes are based on the big five personality traits that psychologists have settled on as providing a good indication of just what makes us tick.

Such personality tests take the form of a questionnaire in which the participant

indicates their alignment with statements concerning human behavior, usually on a scale of

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