Strength evidence
Not what you rate yourself at — what you can produce an occasion for.
- Questions
- 13
- 8 min
- Claims with receipts attached
What this is
There is no instrument behind this and there deliberately is not. Self-rated ability correlates around r = .29 with measured performance, which makes a slider saying «I am good at this» the least reliable thing a page like this could print. So the rating is replaced by an instance: name the occasion, say what you did, and let the pattern across three of them do the work a rating cannot. Nothing here is scored, and none of it is verified — these are your claims, sorted by whether you attached anything to them.
Where it comes from
written down, not impliedClaims with receipts attached
There is no construct behind this one, on purpose. Self-rated ability tracks measured performance only weakly (about r = .29; Zell and Krizan, 2014), so instead of a rating it asks for occasions you can point to.
Written for this app
- Reliability
- not measured
- Factor structure
- not measured
- Validity
- not measured
Further reading
- Zell, E., & Krizan, Z. (2014). Do people have insight into their abilities? A metasynthesis (opens in a new tab). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(2), 111–125original source
- Dunning, D., Heath, C., & Suls, J. M. (2004). Flawed self-assessment: Implications for health, education, and the workplace (opens in a new tab). Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5(3), 69–106review
Read the result as a structured version of what you said, not as a measurement of you.
Why these questions carry no evidence
Every questionnaire in this app writes its own items, because the framework behind an instrument is usually public while the published questionnaire is copyrighted. That is the honest way to build it and it has a cost worth stating plainly: reliability and validity belong to a specific set of questions given to a specific group of people, not to the name of the idea behind them. These questions have never been given to a sample, have no norms, and have no evidence that they measure what they are named after.