These tests may give some indication of strengths and weaknesses, but I would say they are as useful as a chocolate fireguard for properly judging a person’s character and in a work place context! They should be used in private by individuals, who want to learn a little bit more about themselves, almost as light entertainment.
The results can be rather ambiguous, open to erroneous interpretation and overall are really rather crude. I can’t believe companies take them seriously!
Each scenario and how you respond to it in real life would vary, depending on a raft of variables, including how the said individual was feeling at the time.
The real danger is that some daft HR person/manager might take it too seriously and prejudice the future of the person who has taken the test.
One test I did described how people have “a mask”. I.e. to what degree are they are allegedly putting on an act. Well, tell me how anyone can prove either way if someone is a political play actor? It’s nonsense! What a test like this does do is destroy trust. Stupid, given that the test is crude and unsafe!
One poster on here likened these to horoscopes. Whilst not quite so crass, I don’t think they are a great deal different.