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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20521| Title: | Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance : Evidence from Figure Skating |
| Keywords: | M5 D7 ddc:330 subjective performance evaluation outlier aversion bias Personalbeurteilung Arbeitsbewertung Gruppenentscheidung Wintersport Schätzung Welt |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests a simple model of what I call "outlier aversion bias" in which subjective evaluators avoid submitting outlying judgments. We find significant evidence for the existence of outlier aversion. Individual judges within a game manipulate scores to achieve a targeted level of agreement with the other judges. Furthermore, a natural experiment shows that the dispersion of scores across judges depends upon the type of judge-assessment system and its implication for outlier aversion. Agreement may not be a good criterion for the validity of an evaluation system, contradicting the industrial psychology and personnel management literature. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20521 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20521 ppn:395915279 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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