A Vendor of Selection Tests Has Called on the Recruiting

Multiple Choice

A vendor of selection tests has called on the recruiting manager for Maxster Merchandisers,Inc.The vendor is promoting an honesty test which scores he says are strongly negatively correlated with theft.Maxster has had a long-standing problem of employee theft from warehouses.The recruiting manager asks to see some statistics.The vendor says that a high score on the test has a correlation coefficient of ____ with shoplifting behavior.

A) -.2
B) .1
C) .6
D) -.8