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What Test Bias Analyses Do and Don't Tell Us: Let's Not Assume We Have a Can Opener

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

David J. Woehr*
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee
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E-mail: djw@utk.edu, Address: Department of Management, University of Tennessee, 411 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville, TN 37826

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 

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