I didn't know the terminology so I used descriptive words. Psychometrics is the subset of psychology that looks for conclusions in statistical correlations. If answers to questions X, Y and Z correlate consistently through a number of people, it can be said that those three questions are measuring the same thing. There's a statistical tool to find those correlations. It's called factor analysis.
Anyway, if you make all sorts of questions related to temperament, test them and then make a factor analysis from the results, you'll find that there are five dimensions to human personality (as far as anyone can tell so far). One of them is openness, which on one extreme describes something like being naturally curious and on the other something like being naturally cautious. People high in openness are creative, intuitive and statistically tend towards leftism. People low on openness value tradition, stability, think more logically and tend to dislike change.
Thinking outside the box sounds like creativity. You test that by asking people to, say, name uses for a brick and see who comes up with the most ideas.
Conformist versus seeing alternative perspectives sounds like the openness dimension of the big five personality traits. You test that with a psychometric correlation test.
I don't know but ultimately, a product made to give the illusion of love couldn't possibly leave you, which means you'd be able to treat it in any way without contending with an other, which would make you lose interest since its lack of personhood would become obvious after the honeymoon phase. Even perfected it won't be able to replace a proper woman.
It would fulfill you as much as the realization of the teenage dream of having access to on-demand porn in your room would fulfill you.
If it isn’t then I would tell students they are better off just going to a library and reading books on math, science, history, etc
The sad thing is that many people can't really learn by themselves. The classroom style evolved because it works for most. You have a teacher in front in a clear hierarchy that helps with listening and peers beside you to meet some primal social baseline. You put people in a library to become self-taught and most will just doodle and make origami.
You clearly haven't read the book. The movie is a parody. Sure, it's funny and a good movie, but it certainly tries to mock a decent book and its ideas. Not that the book's author had that much wisdom, but still.