When Evaluating the Credentials of a Black Job Applicant Who

question 62

Multiple Choice

When evaluating the credentials of a Black job applicant who has a mixture of good and poor qualifications, a prejudiced evaluator is likely to

• A) give more weight to the negative information than to the positive information.
• B) make an employment decision based on the "average" of the positive and nega- tive information.
• C) give more weight to the positive information than to the negative information.
• D) reject the applicant without considering any of the information.

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