In summary, our general strategy was to use a variety of factor analytic approaches in the hope of finding a robust GFP “signal” that was strong enough to exceed the noise of different ways of modeling personality data. This strategy was guided by the view that if the GFP is as robust as Rushton and Irwing (2011) suggest, it should emerge across a variety of analytic techniques and instruments. The fact that we failed to find convincing evidence for the GFP that converged across instruments casts doubt on its importance as a substantive personality construct.
