The overgeneralized validity of validity generalization |
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| Authors: | Paul M. Muchinsky Justin M. Raines |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Management, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, , Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A;2. Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, , Greenville, North Carolina, U.S.A |
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| Abstract: | This Incubator contends that the concept of validity generalization has been overgeneralized in its capacity to predict work performance for three reasons: sampling bias in the occupations selected for analysis, the prediction of acceptable performance to the exclusion of superior performance, and the conflation of statistical prediction and psychological meaning. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | validity generalization overgeneralized |
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