Jacob applied for the position of correspondent at The News Curator, a news agency in New Orleans. At the beginning of his interview at The News Curator, Jacob had a few awkward minutes until he eventually regained his confidence. This led the interviewer to make a negative judgment about Jacob even though Jacob later performed well. The news agency did not hire him as it felt that he was not skilled enough for the job. Jacob then joined another news agency as a correspondent and won the best crime beat reporter award within a year. Which of the following selection errors did The News Curator most likely make?

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Riley Hutchinson

Social Studies

27 May, 06:32

Jacob applied for the position of correspondent at The News Curator, a news agency in New Orleans. At the beginning of his interview at The News Curator, Jacob had a few awkward minutes until he eventually regained his confidence. This led the interviewer to make a negative judgment about Jacob even though Jacob later performed well. The news agency did not hire him as it felt that he was not skilled enough for the job. Jacob then joined another news agency as a correspondent and won the best crime beat reporter award within a year. Which of the following selection errors did The News Curator most likely make?

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Rebecca Daniels · Answer 1

False-negative error

Explanation:

A "false positive" is when a good quality item gets rejected. A false negative error, is an assessment that indicates that a condition does not hold, while in fact it does.

Jacob wasn't given a job by The News Curator because they thought he wasn't good, but then jacob later turned out to be awarded the best reporter within a year. This is a case of False-negative error, because while they thought jacob wasn't good enough, Jacob actually turned out to be the best.

Tamia Schmitt · Answer 2

B. First-impression errors

Explanation:

Research has shown that during an interview, interviewers use early impressions about candidates in the first 30 seconds to two and a half minutes to make decisions about these candidates. The tendency for interviewers to make these decision, whether positive or negative, in relation to a candidate in the first few second or minutes is what is referred to as first-impression error.