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Ray Dalio

25 Jun, 8 tweets, 2 min read

Many of you have asked about the science behind my free new personality assessment, PrinciplesYou. I need to take a scientific-evidence based approach to my decision making and I need to work with the most knowledgeable people in the areas I’m interested in... (1/8)

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... who also take a scientific approach. That’s why I worked with @AdamMGrant, Brian Little and John Golden - three great psychometricians - to follow that approach in the creation of PrinciplesYou. I want you to understand what we, led by them, did. (2/8)

They started with the Big Five personality assessment database as a foundation as it is an extensively researched and respected perspective within the personality and organizational research world. (3/8)

They augmented this framework in several ways to have PrinciplesYou get at what other personality instruments were missing based on the research that they carried out. (4/8)

They also utilized well established advanced psychometric techniques, including novel algorithms for creating profiles and Archetypes. Third, PrinciplesYou is unique in measuring traits that I’ve identified over my decades of running Bridgewater... (5/8)

... and its results were then triangulated with test results derived from prior personality tests and actual data results about what people are like (e.g. from performance reviews, self-assessments, etc.). (6/8)

When those who have taken PrinciplesYou expressed how well and completely the results describe them, the ratings were very high and higher than the other tests used. You can judge it for yourself and ask your friends to assess how well it describes you... (7/8)

... and you can do the same for them.

If you’re looking to dive deeper into our research base or development strategy, you can read more here: support.principlesyou.com/hc/en-us/artic… (8/8)

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Some ways of thinking will serve you well for some purposes and serve you poorly for others. It is highly desirable to understand one’s own and others’ ways of thinking and their best applications. Some qualities are more suitable for some jobs. (1/4)

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Because of the biases with which we are wired, our self-assessments (and our assessments of others) tend to be highly inaccurate. Psychometric assessments are much more reliable.

They are important in helping explore how people think during the hiring process and throughout employment.

Though psychometric assessments cannot fully replace speaking with people and looking at their backgrounds and histories, they are far more powerful than traditional interviewing and screening methods.

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You’re going to want to know what you’re like, right? And, you’re going to want to know what the people around you are like, right? By knowing what you’re like, you’re going to know what to do with yourself to get what you want.

And by knowing what the people around you are like, you’ll know what to expect of them, and how to interact with them in the best possible way.

Knowing how you think and how others you interact with think is critical in getting what you want in both your personal life and in work.

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