Effects of Expert Ideology on Expert Personality Judgements of Political Figures: A Commentary

The judgements of academic experts on the personalities of political figures are affected by ideological homogeneity of raters and the use of measures hindered by embedded political content. As long as these problems persist, the academic expert personality profiling of political figures is a futile enterprise. Editors and reviewers would be wise to require authors to provide evidence of ideological heterogeneity in samples of raters, evidence of objectivity in ratings, and evidence that measures do not have embedded political content.