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Paul Irwing, Chairman of The Psychometrics at Work Research Group at Manchester Business School, is a world-leading psychometrician at Manchester Business School. He has over 30 years achievement in research specialising in Individual Differences and quantifiable measurement through psychometrics. He is the co-founder of the developmental theory of sex differences and has recently pioneered work on the General Factor of Personality, which is seen as being a generic predictor of life outcomes, including work performance, closely analogous to the General Factor of Human Cognitive Ability. For the past three years he has been working on the Eleven Factor Model of personality with Tom Booth. Professor Irwing was first appointed as an Organisational Psychologist in 1977 at the University of Ulster. In 2003, he joined UMIST (now The University of Manchester and Manchester Business School) as a lecturer in Organisational Psychology and in 2004 he was promoted to senior lecturer and then to Reader, in 2007.