A criterion-related validation study: employment law?
Validation must connect scores to relevant job performance, not merely tenure, demographics, neutrality, or unrelated measures.
The question
A U.S. employer uses an AI screening tool for customer-service hiring. The vendor shows that scores correlate with employee tenure, but the employer needs evidence that scores measure job-related performance. What should it obtain before relying on the tool under covered U.S. employment law?
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- A comparison with unrelated workplace personality measuresUnrelated measures provide context but do not establish a relationship between scores and the customer-service job’s performance criteria.
- A larger sample of applicant demographic dataMore demographic data may assess group effects but does not establish that scores predict the job’s relevant performance criteria.
- A criterion-related validation study ✓A criterion-related study tests whether screening scores predict relevant customer-service performance, directly addressing job relatedness.
- A vendor statement that the algorithm is neutralA neutrality statement does not demonstrate that the tool measures or predicts customer-service performance.
The trap
Ask what job criterion the tool predicts, rather than whether it correlates with any workplace variable. How to remember it
Validation must connect scores to relevant job performance, not merely tenure, demographics, neutrality, or unrelated measures.
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