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The overgeneralized validity of validity generalization

Author(s) -

Muchinsky Paul M.,

Raines Justin M.

Publication year - 2013

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/job.1892

Subject(s) - generalization , conflation , psychology , external validity , meaning (existential) , social psychology , predictive validity , test validity , psychometrics , developmental psychology , mathematics , epistemology , mathematical analysis , philosophy , psychotherapist

Summary 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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