Procedures in employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 173623112X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-112923

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Author:: Bingham, Walter Van Dyke http://d-nb.info/gnd/123042593; Freyd, Max

Title:: Procedures in employment psychology

Place of publication:: Chicago & New York

Publisher:: Shaw

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XI, 269 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: X. Rating scales (concluded)

Collection:: Economics Books

EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 1 A ) 10 ! “il or _ Vety goodwmatured. Agreeable Rather gjum and Grouchy and unpleasant Very ill-naturea ‘Has, winning manner unresponsive and uncivil, ~~ Figure 13: Distribution of self-judgments of 100 college students in answer to the question “Are you good-natured or ill-natured?” (55). The base line of the figure corresponds with the line of the graphic rating scale. At first glance it would appear-that the men had overrated themselves, but the reason for the skewed distribution is more likely to be found in the fact that the central phrase does not represent the average of the ability. The two phrases to the right are so extreme that their use is avoided altogether. cretely the ability is expressed the greater is the expectation that the various raters will be judging the same thing. Be sure that the ability is not a composite of several abilities that vary independently. Decide definitely upon the extremes of the ability which will probably occur among the persons to be rated. The end phrases should not be so extreme in meaning that their use is completely avoided by raters. An example of a scale which errs in this regard is shown in Figure 13. Place in the center of the scale the phrase describing the neutral or average or typical degree of the ability. Figure 13 shows also what happens when this is not done. Half of this scale is useless. No fine discrimination in ability is made. Figure 14 shows a better distribution of ratings, due to a better selection and placement of phrases. Usually not more than five nor less than three descriptive phrases are used to mark the steps on the scale. 136

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