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:

Invested

The deployment of funds with the intention of acquiring income or profit.

Regular-interest

Regular interest refers to the consistent periodic return earned on an investment or paid on a loan as determined by the interest rate.

Compounded Semi-annually

The process where interest is calculated and added to the principal sum every six months.

Compounded Quarterly

The calculation of interest on the initial principal and the accumulated interest over previous periods on a quarterly basis.