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| Author(s): | W. Thorngate, R. M. Dawes and M. Foddy |
| Publisher: | Psychology Press |
| ISBN: | 9780805858358 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 185pp | |
| Price: | £37.50 |
| Review Date: | 13 January 2009 |
| Review: | The authors, experienced research psychologists, examine how judgements of merit are made. Judging merit is not an easy task as it is prone to errors and flaws. It is important to be able to spot the flaws in procedures for judging merit and to correct them when possible. The first seven chapters of this book begin by addressing some of the personal and interpersonal flaws of many processes by which merit is judged. They end by suggesting how the process might be improved, constrained, or augmented in order to reduce the chances that people without merit will be rewarded or that people with merit will be ignored. The last two chapters address the likely consequences of biases and errors. Here the authors rely on computer simulations and speculative reasoning to understand the trade-offs between various strategies for limiting the bad effects of merit judgements. |