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What are the strengths and weaknesses of an objective approach to personality assessment? A subjective approach? How are the concepts of reliability and validity approached from these two ways of assessing personality? Please give some examples.Please only use scholarly sources.

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One of the strengths of an objective approach to personality assessment, is the fact that this form of personality assessment is a form of assessment that is less mind dependent, due to the fact that this approach to personality assessment basically focused on the data in relation to an individual's personality, independent of preconceived notions and or opinions of the data that is analyzed and or retrieved. In addition, this approach to personality assessment focuses more on the facts that are necessary to adequately assess an individual's personality, independent of any inferences on the perspectives of either the researcher or the subject, in relation to ...

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