Question

These two experimenters asked college students from 50 cultures to identify a man or woman they knew well and rate him or her using the third person version of a personality questionnaire. The five-factor model (saying that all personality characteristics link back to one or more of the five general categories (aka factors)) was replicated in almost all cultures

^- What does it mean for this study to have been replicated in almost all cultures?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

What does it mean for this study to have been replicated in almost all cultures?

Answer 3

right.
Well. This isn't really a fun one, is it ?!
My input will be a take it or leave it type this time, I'm afraid.
The question seems to have an anthrological nature; but also a philosophical one, as logic is involved to solve.

There was an unkown number of college students surveyed from 50 different cultures.
Each student chose a person they knew well. Each student rated that person using a personality questionairre.
There is a Five-Factor Model that is comprised of Five Characteristics that are linked to all personality traits. All personality traits will link to one or more of these factors in the model.
At first, it seems that this was proven when it speaks of the replication of the traits in the cultures.
However, on second glance, the statement indicates that replication occured in ALMOST all cultures. If that is true, the survey disproves the Five-Factor Model, as the traits were traced back to ALMOST all cultures, not ALL cultures, as the Model promises.

(So), One meaning of this study to have been replicated in almost all cultures is that personality traits of the most well-known person of an unknown number of college students from 50 different cultures were not ALL IDENTICAL, nor did those personality traits fit into the Five-Factor Model.