Identifying single-item faked responses in personality tests: A new TF-IDF-based method.

Faking in a psychological test is often observed whenever an examinee may gain an advantage from it. Although techniques are available to identify a faker, they cannot identify the specific questions distorted by faking. This work evaluates the effectiveness of term frequency-inverse document freque...

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Main Authors: Alberto Purpura, Dora Giorgianni, Graziella Orrù, Giulia Melis, Giuseppe Sartori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272970