Eysenck Personality Inventory extraversion scores correlated .48 with self-rated extraversion and EPI neuroticism correlated .21 with self-rated neuroticism. Self-ratings were made on single-item 7-point scales. Although statistically significant these correlations were too low to substitute self-ratings from single item scales for personality inventory scores, as some have claimed is possible.
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