The conclusions of Bernhardson and Fisher regarding the “direct contribution” of the social desirability scale value and judged probability of occurrence in the population to the prediction of the proportion of respondents answering True to personality items were re-examined basing new estimates of “direct contribution” upon multiple regression model comparisons which emphasize the common “contribution” between the judged probability of occurrence and social desirability and are not influenced by the ordering of variables in the regression equation.
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