There are personality tests which can be taken for free online. why should I pay to take a personality test?

There are many personality tests and free "personality quizzes" on the net. While such tests often claim to accurately measure personality traits, the reality is that most, or all, of these such tests are at best only poor approximations of the "real thing,". In developing an accurate and reliable personality test there is an established scientific process whereby developers must adhere to commonly accepted psychometric standards of reliability and validity. Career Psychology is not aware of any such free personality quizzes that have met these psychometric standards for reliability and validity in there development. While it is true that every inventory or assessment has room for improvement, unless the rigors of psychometric standards have been adhered to in the development of a psychometric test then one cannot make reliable or valid assumptions based on the results. In basic terms the results can not be trusted.

Like many things, the reality is that when it comes to personality tests you get what you pay for, and when you purchase a test through Career Psychology you know you are getting the benefit of everything that comes with test development under rigorous psychometric standards. You can rest assured that all assessment for sale at Career Psychology have publically available reliablity and validity data to support its use.