| Abstract: | A 160-ITEM BIOGRAPHICAL INVENTORY WAS ADMINISTERED TO 157 PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS WHO WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO 2 GROUPS OF 79 AND 78 SS. EACH ALTERNATIVE FROM EACH ITEM IN THE INVENTORY WAS CORRELATED WITH 19 CRITERION MEASURES OBTAINED ON EACH OF THE SCIENTISTS. THESE PRIMARILY INVOLVED RATINGS OF CREATIVITY, QUANTITY OF WORK PRODUCED, SKILL WITH PEOPLE, ETC., OBTAINED FROM SUPERVISORS, PEERS, AND SUBORDINATES. REMARKABLY LITTLE RELATIONSHIP EXISTED BETWEEN SUPERVISORY AND PEER RATINGS OF THE SCIENTISTS ON MOST VARIABLES. USING A DOUBLE CROSS-VALIDATION DESIGN, INVENTORY PREDICTOR KEYS WERE DEVELOPED FOR EACH OF THE CRITERION RATINGS AND APPLIED ACROSS TO THE NEW INDEPENDENT SAMPLE. SIGNIFICANT CROSS VALIDITIES WERE OBTAINED, NOTABLY IN THE PREDICTION OF THE CREATIVITY CRITERION, WHERE CORRELATIONS OF .36 AND .42 RESULTED ACROSS THE 2 SUBSAMPLES. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
