You Have Just Designed a New Test of Intelligence, but Apparently

question 282

Multiple Choice

You have just designed a new test of intelligence, but apparently it suffers from outcome bias. Which of the following would lead you to this conclusion?

• A)Your test underestimates the actual intelligence of your sample.
• B)Job performance is more highly correlated with your test for women than for men.
• C)Test scores change from one month to the next with the same people.
• D)Job performance is negatively correlated with your test scores.
• E)Different judges can not agree that the scores reflect actual performance.

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