Others, such as Geoff Davey, co-founder and director of FinaMetrica, an Australian firm that creates a risk tolerance questionnaire that's
used by financial planners here and abroad, say our sensitivity to risk is generally
stable, much like a
personality trait.
The
use of
personality tests in the workplace has always been controversial, with concerns ranging from the reliability of self - reporting, to the lack of consensus amongst psychologists as to what actually constitutes a
stable personality trait, as opposed to a mutable mode of behaviour.