A Note On Criterion Contamination in the Validation of Biographical Data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20287271 |
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| Authors | Gary B Brumback (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 439-443 |
| Publication date | 1969-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational and Psychological Measurement (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1644 • E-ISSN: 1552-3888 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001316446902900221 |
| OpenAlex | W2002628199 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
THE purpose of this brief paper is to suggest that three ex-traneous factors may operate to contaminate biographical data validity coefficients based on rating criteria: (a) the familiarity of raters with biographical characteristics of the ratees, (b) raters’ stereotypes about biographical correlates of criterion behavior, and (c) the faking of answers to biographical items so that the back-grounds of people stereotyped as successful are simulated. While it may be quite obvious to the reader that these factors could indeed distort validity findings, to the writer’s knowledge no public mention has been made of the possibility. In reviewing more than 200 published and unpublished articles and documents dealing with biographical data, only one study was noted, and it dealt primarily with the problem of fakability (Klein and Owens
Biology · Contamination · Econometrics · Psychometrics · Statistics · Test validity · Validation test · Census and Population Estimation · Data Analysis and Archiving · Mathematics · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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