The Difference Between a Harshness Bias and a Leniency Bias

question 54

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 ends.
• 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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