When an Employee's Most Recent Performance Can Affect the Evaluation

question 14

Multiple Choice

When an employee's most recent performance can affect the evaluation of his or her overall performance, which error has occurred?

• A) Appraisal bias
• B) Recency
• C) Central tendency
• D) Similar-to-me
• E) Halo

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Definitions:

T-statistic

A type of statistic used in hypothesis testing, particularly in situations dealing with small sample sizes or unknown standard deviations, to determine if there is a significant difference between two sets of data.

Null

Often refers to a value of zero in various contexts, such as null pointers in programming or null hypotheses in statistics.

Alpha

A threshold level used in statistics to determine the significance of results, often set at 0.05 or 5%.

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines whether to reject the null hypothesis, based on the distribution of a test statistic.