Accurate reflection or systematic distortion? A reply to Block, Weiss, and Thorne.

Clarifies the authors' systematic distortion hypothesis (SDH) with reference to the J. Block et al (see record 1980-29222-001) critique. The "bipolar redundancy" effect is found to be an artifact of reduced variance in matrices of uncorrelated traits. It is contended that the SDH remains well supported and that the evidence for the existence of covarying, memory-based ratings remains dubious. (12 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)