Adam Evaluates Everyone in His Department as "Average" - No

question 51

Multiple Choice

Adam evaluates everyone in his department as "average" - no one is a great employee,but no one is a bad employee,either.Adam is exhibiting a distributional error known as ________________ in his evaluations.

• A)leniency
• B)severity
• C)central tendency
• D)inflation

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