Personality testing: no wrong answers?

Personality testing: no wrong answers?

If you've recently applied for a job, you may have been asked to fill out a personality test. From banks and consultancy firms to fast-food outlets, they're increasingly being used as a way to improve efficiency and perceived fairness in recruitment.The most common tests used for these purposes are based on the so-called 'big 5' personality traits that psychologists have settled on as providing a good indication of just what makes us tick. Such personality tests take the form of a questionnaire in which the participant indicates their alignment with statements concerning human behaviour,... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Cracking cancer's code, and the cow that scratches its back

Cracking cancer's code, and the cow that scratches its back

Coming up, a world-first gene cancer database is launched. How might it help us gain a better understanding of how disease develops? Plus, the link between vitamin D deficiency and respiratory infecti...

30 Tammi 34min

Titans of Science: John Zarnecki

Titans of Science: John Zarnecki

Titans of Science is back with John Zarnecki, a towering figure in the UK's space community. He has played a crucial role in designing instruments for groundbreaking space missions, and has also helpe...

27 Tammi 31min

Alzheimer's fingerprick test, and space debris sonic booms

Alzheimer's fingerprick test, and space debris sonic booms

This week, a blood finger-prick test has been developed to detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms arise. But how accurate is it? Plus, tracking space debris reentry from their sonic booms with ear...

23 Tammi 31min

Generation New Era: The UK's new birth cohort study

Generation New Era: The UK's new birth cohort study

This week, we're looking at a major study that is following the development of children born in the UK in 2026. It's called Generation New Era, and in this episode we hear from the team leading the re...

20 Tammi 31min

China's new London embassy, and screen-time retards speech

China's new London embassy, and screen-time retards speech

This week, China's attempts to build a new "mega-embassy" in London, but are there security risks? Plus, the UK plans to build a record number of offshore wind farms for cleaner energy, the impact of ...

18 Tammi 28min

Science leads the way at Davos

Science leads the way at Davos

This week, we've partnered with Frontiers as they aim to push science to the top of the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It comes as the publisher's Frontiers Science House prepares to wel...

13 Tammi 31min

Chickenpox jab UK rollout, and how the US grabbed Maduro

Chickenpox jab UK rollout, and how the US grabbed Maduro

This week, the UK begins the rollout of the chickenpox vaccine to younger children. But why is it only being offered now? Plus, the high-level technological plan to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro,...

9 Tammi 29min

Titans of Science: Ed Wild & Sarah Tabrizi

Titans of Science: Ed Wild & Sarah Tabrizi

In this episode, we hear from not one, but two Titans of Science, together. And that's because Ed Wild and Sarah Tabrizi are neuroscientists, neurologists and long-time collaborators both based at Uni...

6 Tammi 39min

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