Hi
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, John Uebersax wrote:
> IMHO, psychological tests in this case should not substitute for a
> thorough interview and human judgment.
>
> Just my .02 worth.
There is a considerable literature on clinical judgment (i.e.,
interview and human judgement) vs. actuarial predictions (i.e.,
predictions from demonstrably valid regression equations ...
human judgment _might_ be used in producing individual predictor
scores, but not in aggregating them). In general, human judgment
does not fare all that well relative to actuarial (i.e.,
statistical) methods. Interesting that someone posting to a
statistical newsgroup would advocate the non-statistical approach
to selection problems.
Best wishes
Jim
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