Statistical Error: Ignoring context

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. Think about what data could be used instead (to avoid ignoring context)?
  4. What parameter or statistic will you use to represent the dataset?
  5. How could this help avoid the error?