The Difference Between a Harshness Bias and a Leniency Bias

question 40

Multiple Choice

The difference between a harshness bias and a leniency bias is that

• A) the former involves selecting employee ratings in the middle of a scale, and the latter involves selecting employee ratings toward the end.
• B) the former involves rating employees more severely than their performance merits, and the latter involves rating employees more favorably than their performance merits.
• C) the former involves assigning similar scores to items that are near each other on a questionnaire, and the latter involves leaving out items placed close together.
• D) the former involves judging others more negatively when they are like oneself, and the latter involves judging others more positively when they are like oneself.

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Definitions:

Darwinian Natural Selection

The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Evolutionary Change

The process through which genetic variations accumulate over generations, leading to changes in the traits and behaviors of organisms.

Hereditarily

Hereditarily pertains to the genetic transmission of traits, diseases, or characteristics from parents to offspring.

Artificial Selection

The process by which humans breed plants and animals for particular genetic characteristics.