... employment. During this time many companies stopped producing tests in the fear of lawsuits (which had been successfully pursued against some companies). Later on, tests were developed specifically for occupation assessment and slowly confidence was restored. There are several things different psychometric tests and questionnaires seek to measure: intelligence, ability, personality, aptitude and attainment. Intelligence tests seek to measure a skill or ability within a particular factor (generally these are academic in nature) and often then combine them to a singular particular comparable figure; it is often easier to define intelligence tests than to explain intelligence itself. Ability tests are measure things that may not necessarily make one intelligent but nonetheless can be useful. For example, someone's spatial ability: being able to recognise the same shape under different orientation can confirm spatial ability. Personality tests in essence tend to attempt to measure someone's personality; the problem regarding these tests ...

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