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The second source of opportunity differentiates among test takers. Specifically, faking is possible only when the test taker scores below the highest possible score on the given scale. If the maximum score on a self-report methodicalness test is 9, then someone who would score 9 under conditions encouraging honesty (e.g., post hire under plausible assurances of confidentiality and safety, with explicit, friendly appeals to be honest) simply has no room to fake up. At the other extreme, someone scoring the lowest possible on the scale (e.g., 1) under honesty conditions has the greatest opportunity to fake up. The potency of this source of faking opportunity is reflected in the fact that it inevitably yields an "autocorrelation" between honest condition scores and degree of upward faking (McFarland & Ryan, 2000): It is always negative because the higher one's score under honest conditions, the less room one has to fake. Need Assignment Help?