Correlation Between Students Score And The Informant's Score

Through the course of the semester, each student was required to fill out a variety of personality tests. After each student completed the personality test, he or she would then give the test to someone who knows him or her well enough to answer the questions while pretending to be the student. The person who takes the quiz as if they are the student is called the informant. After the student and the informant take the tests, the student records the scores into a spreadsheet. After all the tests are complete, a statistical correlation between the student’s score and the informant’s score is done. Since the informant is suppose to be someone who knows the student well you would think that the scores would match up and both the student and the informant would have answered the same. This is not the case for all of the personality tests. For example, my informant and I disagreed and got different …show more content…
For this personality test I scored myself a 39 because I believe that I am a hard worker, and that I can start and finish any project, but I get side tracked and bored while trying to complete them. My informant gave me the score of 45, which mean he believes that I have more Grit than I gave myself credit for. My informant believes that I am a hard worker, I finish what ever I start, and that setbacks don’t discourage me. I feel that my informant and I both misjudged this aspect of my personality. I feel that I could have scored myself higher for this test because I am diligent, I never give up, I face every challenge that comes my way, and I set goals, but setbacks discourage me, and I don’t always stick to my goals. I think that my informant was only looking at the positives and not the negatives when doing this test. He knows that I am a hard worker and I finish what I start, but I don’t think he was taking into account that setbacks discourage me, and I don’t always stick to my