Lee, Jungmin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests a simple model of what I call "outlier aversion bias" in which subjective … evaluators avoid submitting outlying judgments. We find significant evidence for the existence of outlier aversion. Individual … for outlier aversion. Agreement may not be a good criterion for the validity of an evaluation system, contradicting the …