Definition: The belief that performance is determined by the individual effort and neglects the tools, location, colleagues, and environment that allows someone to successfully perform.
- Provide a Human Resource decision that has to be made as an example to the statistical error ignoring context. Definition is provided above, give an example/scenario.
- Errors typically occur because the data used to make the decision is flawed in some way. What flawed data could lead to the error for this decision?
- Think about what data could be used instead (to avoid ignoring context)?
- What parameter or statistic will you use to represent the dataset?
- How could this help avoid the error?