Using Social Media to Measure Personality: A New Chapter of Old Fiction
On February 19th 2015, CBS Evening News presented a story about using social media to measure personality. It featured a Stanford professor using algorithms on over 86,000 Facebook users to measure their personalities based on what they ‘Like’. Those who click on Shakespeare and 2001: A Space Odyssey were described as artistic, whereas those who clicked on Rush Limbaugh and Ford were described as conventional. Liking boxing was linked to being organized, and liking vampires was an indicator of being spontaneous. The story also featured similar work at the University of Cambridge, and a New York-based consulting firm using social media to screen applicants. When seeing these institutions named, one might think that examining a person’s fingerprint on social media is a sound method for assessing personality. However, as Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly have recently demonstrated, just because something’s on the news doesn’t necessarily make it true.
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Mythbusters Series: People Are Rational
Mythbusters Series: Right-Brained vs. Left-Brained
3rd Annual Certification Workshop in Minneapolis
Can a Great Boss Lead to Burnout?
Nobody likes a micromanaging boss. There are mountains of evidence that show micromanaging bosses are bad for employee engagement and office morale and productivity. In fact, when we asked 1,000 people to describe their worst boss, 48% said micromanaging.
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
2015 Hogan Workshops
Even the most advanced assessment tools won’t do any good if you don’t know how to use them. Facilitated by seasoned professionals and tailored to an audience of executive coaches, HR directors or generalists, organizational development or training professionals, and industrial-organizational psychologists, Hogan’s workshops give participants the information they need to effectively administer, interpret, and implement the Hogan assessments.
The two-day Hogan Certification Workshop gives participants a basic understanding of and certifies them to administer and interpret the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory.
February 17-18 in Atlanta
March 18-19 in Minneapolis
April 15-16 in New York
May 19-20 in Atlanta
June 16-17 in New York
July 14-15 in Atlanta
August 25-26 in Atlanta
September 29-30 in New York
October 20-21 in Las Vegas
December 1-2 in Atlanta
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