Correction

Volume 193 - Issue 8

Interviewer bias in medical student selection

Authors:  Barbara N Griffin and Ian G Wilson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 486. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04015.x
Published online: 18 October 2010
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Correction

Incorrect year: In “Interviewer bias in medical student selection” in the 20 September 2010 issue of the Journal (Med J Aust 2010; 193: 343-346), there was an error in the third-column subheading of Box 2 (page 345). The subheading should read “2007 mean score (SD)”.

2 Mean scores for multiple mini-interview (MMI) interviewer ratings of interviewees and for interviewer personality traits, and relationships (correlation coefficients) between these values

Correlation coefficient*

2006 mean

score (SD)

2007 mean

score (SD)

MMI score

Agreeableness

Extraversion

Neuroticism

Conscientiousness

Openness

MMI score

10.95 (1.29)

10.50 (1.19)

—

0.24‡

0.19

− 0.25‡

− 0.06

0.00

Agreeableness

4.23 (0.56)

4.11 (0.65)

0.26†

—

0.28†

− 0.22‡

0.12

0.32†

Extraversion

3.24 (0.79)

3.29 (0.69)

− 0.06

0.24†

—

− 0.30†

− 0.06

0.26†

Neuroticism

2.30 (0.66)

2.42 (0.71)

− 0.08

− 0.17‡

− 0.16

—

− 0.06

0.04

Conscientiousness

3.85 (0.68)

3.84 (0.72)

0.09

0.11

− 0.08

− 0.19‡

—

− 0.02

Openness

3.30 (0.52)

3.18 (0.65)

− 0.01

0.12

0.19‡

0.01

− 0.11

—

* Correlation coefficients for 2006 data on lower diagonal (darker shading) and for 2007 data on upper diagonal (lighter shading). † P < 0.005. ‡ P <0.05.

Authors

  • Barbara N Griffin BPsych(Hons), PhD, MAPS1
  • Ian G Wilson MB BS, PhD, FRACGP2
  • 1. Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW.
  • 2. University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: barbara.griffin@mq.edu.au

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