Interviewer bias in medical student selection

Griffin, Barbara N; Wilson, Ian G

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04015.x

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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.

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Barbara N Griffin¹
Ian G Wilson²

1 Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW.
2 University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: barbara.griffin@mq.edu.au

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