All of the Following Statements About Rating Biases Are True

question 107

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements about rating biases are true EXCEPT

• A)women in stereotypically male jobs are rated higher than women in stereotypically female jobs.
• B)attractive women are rated higher if they hold non-management jobs than if they hold management positions.
• C)liking someone may cause the rater to selectively remember positive things about the person and thus rate him higher.
• D)leniency bias can be addressed by having the rater use relative rankings.

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Definitions:

Random Assignment

A technique used in experiments to ensure that each participant has an equal chance of being placed in any group.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistics that summarize, organize, and simplify data to describe its main features without drawing conclusions beyond the data itself.

Sampling

The process of selecting a subset of individuals, objects, or observations from a larger population to make inferences about the whole.

Observational Studies

Research methods in which subjects are observed in their natural environment without any intervention by the researcher.