Imagine you have been asked to develop a personality test that measures antisocial behaviors. The measure will

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Imagine you have been asked to develop a personality test that measures antisocial behaviors. The measure will be used for three different purposes. The first purpose will be to identify high school students who are having trouble in school and thus may be referred to an alternative high school for troubled youths. The second purpose is to determine whether parolees still pose a significant risk to society if they are paroled and thus allowed to rejoin society. In the third situation, the test will be used to screen candidates applying for the job of police officer with a small municipality (15,000 residents) that uses community policing as its major crime-fighting mechanism. 

1. Would you expect to find different forms of response biases in the different populations under study? If so, which biases would you see as most prominent in each of the three scenarios? 

2. What strategies would you suggest to prevent response biases in each of the three scenarios? 

3. What strategies would you suggest to identify response biases in each of the three scenarios once the data have been collected?

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Measurement Theory In Action

ISBN: 9780367192181

3rd Edition

Authors: Kenneth S Shultz, David Whitney, Michael J Zickar

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