A SHORTENED BASIC ENGLISH VERSION (FORM THE 16 PF

liability of 0.5 on these. If a test must be short, say, 100 items instead of the 354 items on the combined A and B forms of the 16 PF, then /( is better to sacrifice reliability rather than to give up an efficiently wide and even sampling of the principal dimensions of personality—as information theory clearly shows (13). ................
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