October 2026
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Meaning and Covariation in 300 Personality Items
cats: Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Science, Psychology
Semantic similarity between personality items may help explain their empirical correlations, but measuring this similarity requires an explicit operationalization. We use text embeddings, numerical representations of item wording produced by a language model, to study this correspondence in the 300-item IPIP-NEO. Correlations between embedding vectors operationalize semantic similarity; correlations among...