{"id":1500,"date":"2008-04-04T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/who-needs-validated-assessments\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:20:21","slug":"who-needs-validated-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/who-needs-validated-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Validated Assessments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Especially when you can simply look at someone&#8217;s shoes.\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080401\/lf_nm_life\/sneakers_leaders_dc\">This Yahoo News story<\/a> has to be an April Fool&#8217;s joke:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mindset Media, a media company that examines personality traits of different consumers, found that people who buy more than three pairs of sneakers a year are 61 percent more likely to have the qualities of a modern leader.<\/p>\n<p>These qualities were defined as having ideas and vision, and a style with others that is both inclusive and decisive.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of 7,500 people, using market research group Nielsen&#8217;s online panel, found multi-sneaker buyers were 50 percent more likely to be very assertive and 47 percent more likely to be spontaneous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It gets <strike>worse<\/strike> better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hybrid car owners were found to be 78 percent more likely to be highly creative than other people and less dogmatic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has to be a prank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especially when you can simply look at someone&#8217;s shoes.\u00a0 This Yahoo News story has to be an April Fool&#8217;s joke: Mindset Media, a media company that examines personality traits of different consumers, found that people who buy more than three pairs of sneakers a year are 61 percent more likely to have the qualities of a modern leader. These qualities were defined as having ideas and vision, and a style with others that is both inclusive and decisive. The survey of 7,500 people, using market research group Nielsen&#8217;s online panel, found multi-sneaker buyers were 50 percent more likely to be very assertive and 47 percent more likely to be spontaneous.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/who-needs-validated-assessments\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[505,483,504],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->