Findings that provide 'all kinds of reasons for hope.'
Further, from a statistical standpoint, let's dissect what the test-retest correlation of about .65 means. First off, a correlation of .65 is a. That simply means that low scores on one variable tend to go with low scores on another variable, while high scores on one variable tend to go with high scores on the other variable.
So across all of the Big 5 traits, how people scored at Time 1 tended to, on average, be pretty similar to how they scored on those same traits years later. So on one hand, these findings speak to stability in personality traits across life. This said, let's analyze these findings in a more granular fashion. In statistics, we can square a correlation coefficient to come up with an index of how much that coefficient explains the relationship between two variables. So if you have a correlation between two variables of .90, for instance, that means that .81, or 81 percent of the scores on one variable are explained by scores on the other variable.
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