Thurstone Might Have Been Right About Attitudes, but Drasgow,Chernyshenko, and Stark Fail to Make the Case for Personality

摘要

Drasgow, Chernyshenko, and Stark's (2010) polemic argues the need for, and superi-ority of, an ideal point response process and an ideal point measurement model, for "personality" measurement, broadly defined. Yet, the target article leaves me unconvinced of their merits or necessity in personality trait measurement. The reasons for my skepticism are their (a) questionable distinction between cognitive and noncog-nitive data as it relates to the applicability and interpretability of dominance response models, (b) weak conceptual link between attitude measurement theory and person-ality trait assessment, (c) reliance on the findings produced from a single fit index when applied to a limited set of self-report measures, and (d) failure to provide empiri-cal evidence that personality trait scales, in general, fail to include items that provide measurement precision in the "middle" or "intermediate" level of the trait range.