3______(RESEARCH) used
personality
_______
4________(MEASURE) from
more
than
10,000
people,
__________
5 _______
(APPROXIMATE) half men and half women. The
personality test included 15 personality scales, including such traits as warmth,
_________
6_______(SENSIVTIVE) , and perfectionism. When comparing men's
and women's overall personality profiles, which take multiple traits into account,
very large differences between the sexes became apparent, even though differences
look much smaller when each trait is considered separately.
However, the study indicates that previous methods to measure such differences
have been______
7______(ADEQUATE) , both because they focused on one trait
at a time and because they failed to correct for measurement error.
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The authors conclude that the true extent of sex differences in human personality
has therefore been consistently ________
