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At Sea With Synthetic Validity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Piers Steel,
Jeff W. Johnson,
P. Richard Jeanneret,
Charles A. Scherbaum,
Calvin C. Hoffman and
Jeff Foster
Piers Steel*
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
Jeff W. Johnson
Affiliation:
Personnel Decisions Research Institutes
P. Richard Jeanneret
Affiliation:
Valtera Corporation
Charles A. Scherbaum
Affiliation:
Baruch College
Calvin C. Hoffman
Affiliation:
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Alliant University
Jeff Foster
Affiliation:
Hogan Assessment Systems
*
E-mail: piers.steel@haskayne.ucalgary.ca, Address: Piers Steel, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, SH444 - 500 University Drive, N.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; Jeff W. Johnson, Personnel Decisions Research Institutes; Charles A. Scherbaum, Department of Psychology, Baruch College; Calvin C. Hoffman, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Alliant University; P. Richard Jeanneret, Valtera Corporation; Jeff Foster, Hogan Assessment Systems.
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We expected that the commentary process would provide valuable feedback to improve our ideas and identify potential obstacles, and we were not disappointed. The commentaries were generally in agreement that synthetic validity is a good idea, although we also received a fair amount of suggestions for improvements, conditional or tempered praise, and explicitly critical comments. We address the concerns that were raised and conclude that we should move forward with developing a large-scale synthetic validity database, incorporating the suggestions of some of the commentators.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2010, pp. 371 - 383
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 

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