Pitfalls of Ability Research in Aviation Psychology

Abstract

Ability research in aviation psychology can be fraught with pitfalls that lead to inappropriate conclusions. We identify several issues that lead to potential misinterpretation of results and suggest corrective solutions. These issues include lack of construct validity of the measures, misinterpretation of correlations and regression weights, lack of statistical power, failure to estimate cross validation effects, and misinterpretation of factor analytic results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA372383

Entities

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  • Malcolm James Ree
  • Thomas R. Carretta

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Factor Analysis
  • Flight Training
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Personnel Selection
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Reliability
  • Situational Awareness

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