Which of the following statements does NOT apply to rationally constructed personality scales?
A) The items must all be face-valid indicators of what the tester is trying to measure.
B) The person who completes the form must be able and willing to report an accurate self-assessment.
C) Each item must mean the same thing to the person who fills out the form as it did to the psychologist who wrote it.
D) Items are selected with the aid of statistical analyses such as item response theory (IRT).

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Rationally constructed personality scales are based on theory and the items are chosen because they logically seem to measure what the scale intends to measure, not through statistical analyses like item response theory (IRT). IRT is more characteristic of empirically constructed scales.

Which of the Following Statements Does NOT Apply to Rationally