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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.