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Scenario 10-1
For four months you have been employed as the part-time HRM for TS Inc., a small Canadian aviation company. In the past, recruitment and selection rested on the shoulders of the president and, like most small companies, TS Inc. used employee referrals and an informal interview processes in selecting employees. Since you have been hired, you have guided management through several stages of the recruitment and selection process to hire an aircraft maintenance engineer. TS Inc. has used proper selection methods such as screening, testing, and structured interviews but is not sure about how to integrate the data from these various sources. In the past, the president relied on his gut feeling about applicants and made poor hiring decisions.
-Refer to Scenario 10-1. Why would TS Inc. management be concerned about false positive errors?


Definitions:

Equal Sample Sizes

A condition in statistical analysis where the number of data points or observations in each group or category being compared is the same.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of data points in a population, indicating how much the data varies from the mean of the population.

Sample SD

The standard deviation of a sample, representing the dispersion or variability of the sample data points from their mean.

Significance Level

In statistics, a threshold for determining how significant the results of an experiment are, often used in hypothesis testing to gauge the probability of incorrectly rejecting a true null hypothesis.

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