The "Halo Effect

question 116

Multiple Choice

The "halo effect"

• A)refers to an interviewer's ability to make immediate and correct judgments
• B)is a situation where applicants are asked to discuss their strengths only
• C)often means that people are judged on information that is irrelevant
• D)occurs only when the very best candidates are interviewed
• E)is not a perceptual bias that has any impact in the interviewing process

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Definitions:

Two-sided Test

A statistical test where the region of rejection is on both sides of the sampling distribution, used to determine if there's a significant difference from a specific value.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or variables that are free to vary in a statistical analysis, critical for determining the significance of test results.

One-sample T Statistic

A statistical measure used to test whether the mean of a single sample differs significantly from a known or hypothesized population mean.

Normal Quantile Plot

A graphical method for assessing whether a set of data follows a normal distribution by plotting observed data against theoretically expected normal values.