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<\/a> be considered in an analysis. For example, we all know a person\u2019s behavior is comprised of many different factors. Cattell was able to take over 20,000 words that served as descriptors of personality, and through Factor Analysis, he was able to narrow down all the personality traits into 16 relevant factors that make up a person\u2019s full personality profile. In Cattell\u2019s own words, \u201cFor psychology to take its place as an effective science, we must become less concerned with grandiose theory than with establishing, through research, certain basic laws of relationship.\u201d Factor Analysis is this complex technique where you throw in a bunch of questions totally unrelated and you get them separated into clusters based on themes, which become a single factor. One of the authors did this on his dissertation, way back when, with computer cards and a couple of days of waiting. Cattell did it with paper and pencil and a slide rule (which is an ancient mathematical torture device that only two students in any class could figure out before computers were around). Nowadays, you can probably do factor analysis on an iPad in seconds.<\/span><\/p>\nThus, Cattell developed the \u2018Sixteen Personality Factor (16PF\u00ae<\/sup>) Questionnaire\u2019. This test is equivalent to the \u2018sorting hat\u2019 of Hogwarts\u2014it can identify your personality, predict which career you would be most likely to pursue, and how well or not so well you may perform in a given position (although it doesn\u2019t sing a catchy song while doing so). Later on, these 16 relevant factors were further narrowed down into the \u201cBig Five\u201d traits as we know them today.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Institute for Personality and Ability Testing (IPAT), Inc. publishes the 16PF Questionnaire, which is now in its 5th<\/sup> edition. Their clients who use it do so to screen through interested job applicants, identify and develop leaders, provide insights for those looking to explore a college major or new career, and to aid in individual and couples counseling. It has great predictive research and selection reports for police and other first responder personnel. And\u2014in case you haven\u2019t guessed yet\u2014Cattell founded this institution and his family led it until 2007.<\/span><\/p>\nAs we\u2019re sure you know from reading previous blog posts on this site, those of us in police psychology<\/u> are very concerned with the various personality traits of our uniformed personnel. It is crucial to know how a policeman would react in a high-stress situation; would he run away or into the fray? (What is a fray, by the way?) Call his mom? Take a selfie? Curl up into a fetal position and cry? Break the law? Enforce the law? None of the above? As it turns out, tests have shown that \u2018protective service officers\u2019 are more likely to be cool and collected under pressure. But we don\u2019t limit these personality tests to police officers. If one\u2019s personality isn\u2019t properly understood, he\/she could end up in the wrong profession. This is why Raymond Cattell\u2019s 16PF Questionnaire is so important\u2014to ensure that you don\u2019t hire a vegan to be a butcher, an agoraphobic as a public speaker, or the local drug dealer as your pharmacist. \u00a0And IPAT, the company started by Cattell (did we tell you that?) has an assessment tool that is perfect for predicting law enforcement officers success on the job. No wonder we<\/em> like IPAT so much!<\/span><\/p>\nHarry Potter changed the world of wizards and muggles when he killed Voldemort (He-who-must-not-be-named). He was a wizard with special power and a vision to be able to defeat Voldemort and return the balance to the world. The author, J.K. Rowling, used tremendous creativity to make you constantly say to yourself \u201cHow did she think of that?\u201d Cattell, too, had a special power and a vision. He had the power to see personality characteristics as having a problem of content validity (making up the content arbitrarily) and the vision to apply a complicated mathematical concept to solve the problem. He also had creativity as he created not only the 16PF Questionnaire, but a Culture Fair Intelligence Test, the concept of crystallized and fluid intelligence, and numerous ability tests. And he created the company IPAT to keep his tests alive and to allow the police psychology<\/em> world to have a choice for testing.<\/span><\/p>\nSo, similar to Hogwarts without Harry, we do not know what police psychology<\/strong> would be without Raymond Cattell. What we do<\/u> know, his name covered three questions on the most recent Psychology GRE; IPAT is an essential publisher of testing in police selection; and we are still writing about Cattell years later. He must have had something going for him.<\/span><\/p>\nGary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.<\/span><\/h2>\nPlease share this article from down below.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\nP<\/em>lease join the email list on the top of the sidebar and you can get these sent to you email box.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\nCome back regularly for more updated blogs on police psychology<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hogwarts and Police Psychology by Drs. Gary Aumiller and Scott Stubenrauch (Guest Blogger) What if we told you that Hogwarts was real and police psychology is used frequently with the new students? What if there really was a Sorting Hat that could define your personality and place you into a specific house? 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<\/a> be considered in an analysis. For example, we all know a person\u2019s behavior is comprised of many different factors. Cattell was able to take over 20,000 words that served as descriptors of personality, and through Factor Analysis, he was able to narrow down all the personality traits into 16 relevant factors that make up a person\u2019s full personality profile. In Cattell\u2019s own words, \u201cFor psychology to take its place as an effective science, we must become less concerned with grandiose theory than with establishing, through research, certain basic laws of relationship.\u201d Factor Analysis is this complex technique where you throw in a bunch of questions totally unrelated and you get them separated into clusters based on themes, which become a single factor. One of the authors did this on his dissertation, way back when, with computer cards and a couple of days of waiting. Cattell did it with paper and pencil and a slide rule (which is an ancient mathematical torture device that only two students in any class could figure out before computers were around). Nowadays, you can probably do factor analysis on an iPad in seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n