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Self Description Inventory Plus Initiative: Assault On Occam's Razor

Johnny J. Weissmuller, Kenneth L. Schwartz

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In the late 1950’s the Air Force conducted a factor-analytic meta-analysis of existing data sets for personality models. What they identified have become known as the “Big Five” (BF) factors of personality (BF acronym- OCEAN=Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism). The Self-Description Inventory Plus (SDI+) is an expanded personality assessment instrument designed to cover the waterfront of normal personalities for use in today’s Air Force personnel systems. The “Plus ” adds factors for “Service ” and “Team ” orientations yielding the new acronym of

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In the late 1950’s the Air Force conducted a factor-analytic meta-analysis of existing data sets for personality models. What they identified have become known as the “Big Five” (BF) factors of personality (BF acronym- OCEAN=Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism). The Self-Description Inventory Plus (SDI+) is an expanded personality assessment instrument designed to cover the waterfront of normal personalities for use in today’s Air Force personnel systems. The “Plus ” adds factors for “Service ” and “Team ” orientations yielding the new acronym of

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In the late 1950’s the Air Force conducted a factor-analytic meta-analysis of existing data sets for personality models. What they identified have become known as the “Big Five” (BF) factors of personality (BF acronym- OCEAN=Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism). The Self-Description Inventory Plus (SDI+) is an expanded personality assessment instrument designed to cover the waterfront of normal personalities for use in today’s Air Force personnel systems. The “Plus ” adds factors for “Service ” and “Team ” orientations yielding the new acronym of

Key concepts: Selection (genetic algorithm), Officer, Personnel selection, Test (biology), Vocational education, Military personnel, Population, Order (exchange)

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