The Thurstone Personality Schedule was one of the first personality tests. It was published by Louis Leon Thurstone and Thelma Gwinn Thurstone in 1930. It underwent many revisions and adaptions.
6 year test-retest reliability was 0.53 in one study.
In 1952 around 200 firms used the test for personnel screening.
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Thurstone Personality Schedule Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA