Free online test can tell if you're 'pre-disposed' to negative or bad behavior
In the 2002 movie Minority Report, a law enforcement squad called "Precrime" arrests future criminals before they commit their act. Imagine if businesses could predict the future behavior of potential employees before hiring (or not hiring) them? That’s what Veris Benchmarks’ products aim to achieve.
The company also offers Veris Prime, is a free online test that you can take for yourself, and which measures your personal trustworthiness and shows how your results compare to white collar criminals.
The test consists of 40 multiple choice questions, and requires around ten minutes to complete. You need to enter an email address, and some details, and then respond to each of the questions in turn. The finished report will be sent, in PDF format, to your email address.
The score is determined by measuring a number of traits including:
- Accountability (irresponsible versus reasonable)
- Sincerity (manipulative versus genuine)
- Conscientiousness (non-compliant versus ethical)
- Ambition (greedy versus generous)
- Empathy (callous versus empathic)
- Commitment (entitled versus diligent)
- Consideration (defensive versus tolerant)
- Caution (impulsive versus self-controlled)
According to the company:
The Veris Prime assessment produces an aggregate score, as demarcated within three zones: low medium and high. A higher aggregate score suggests (but does not prove) a higher level of personal trustworthiness. Veris Prime provides an initial snapshot for "moral fiber". Veris Professional provides for a more comprehensive and detailed analysis of the personality traits indicated by Veris Prime. The results for both tests are held with absolute confidentiality and are never shared. However, no survey, no matter with what scientific rigor it is designed and tested, can predict human behavior with certainty, only probabilistically. Thus, Veris takes pains to prevent the misuse of its test by providing a contextual summary of the aggregate summary and advises care in all uses of statistics to explain or predict human behavior.
"Veris Benchmarks was really inspired by the Madoff scandal", says CEO and Founder David Shulman, who has spent more than 30 years in the institutional financial services industry. "After family members and friends were directly impacted by the corrupt scheme, I became consumed with trying to determine precisely what firms were doing to really 'know' their employees, to better understand those individuals they were hiring to act in a fiduciary capacity".
Of course, if you’re of low moral fiber, then you’ll probably lie throughout the test to make yourself seem more trustworthy, but as Veris Prime is only for you to get to "know" yourself there’s no real point in doing that.
You can take the test here.