Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik unter dem Aspekt des Barnum-Effekts

Katharina Freistetter's diploma thesis, submitted in psychology at the University of Vienna and subsequently published, is the only located empirical test of Human Design against a standard, independently validated personality inventory: characterisations produced by Human Design methods could not be validated against the NEO PI-R, and assent to them was found consistent with the Barnum effect, the tendency to accept vague, generalized statements as personally accurate. That direct empirical test, run under academic supervision, is the record's real evidentiary basis. This record states its own limit plainly: the thesis text itself was not consulted directly for this citation, only the bibliographic record and the reported finding as carried in a German language encyclopedia entry on Human Design, so a fact citing it should be read as asserting nothing beyond that reported finding. Use it for this specific empirical result and nothing beyond it.