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Issues and non‐issues in the fidelity–bandwidth trade‐off
Author(s) -
HOGAN JOYCE,
ROBERTS BRENT W.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199611)17:6<627::aid-job2828>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - fidelity , bandwidth (computing) , matching (statistics) , personality , psychology , high fidelity , computer science , empirical evidence , econometrics , cognitive psychology , social psychology , economics , mathematics , telecommunications , statistics , engineering , epistemology , philosophy , electrical engineering
This paper makes seven points in response to certain claims made by Ones and Viswesvaran (1996, this issue). First, we see no evidence that the fidelity–bandwidth trade‐off has become a crisis in the empirical literature. Moreover, we seen no evidence that anyone prefers narrow band personality measures over broad bandwidth scales. In addition, because job performance is complex and multidimensional, broad bandwidth predictors are normally required in personnel selection. Finally, our conclusion is simple—the nature of the criterion dictates the choice of predictors and matching predictors with criteria always enhances validity.