****Use to answer following 2 questions****

Peak Software needs to hire sales representatives for a new product release. The sales manager and assistant manager decide to make their selection decisions based on interviews of each applicant.

During the first day of interviews, the sales manager and the assistant manager interview fourteen people who have applied to work as sales representatives. Before interviewing more applicants, the manager decides to correlate how she ranked these fourteen applicants with how the assistant manager ranked them. The correlation between the two rankings is .29.

1) This correlation is a measure of ________.

a) Content validity.

b) Alternate forms reliability.

c) Concurrent validity.

d) Inter-rater reliability.

2) What does the correlation indicate about the interview process?

a) It is not reliable.

b) It is reliable 71 percent of the time.

c) It is reliable 29 percent of the time.

d) It is very reliable.