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The Challenge of Debiasing Personnel Decisions: Avoiding Both Under- and Overcorrection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Philip E. Tetlock ,
Gregory Mitchell  and
Terry L. Murray
Philip E. Tetlock*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Gregory Mitchell
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Terry L. Murray
Affiliation:
LASSC, LLC
*
E-mail: tetlock@haas.berkeley.edu, Address: Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 545 Student Services Building #1900, Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 439 - 443
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

**

School of Law, University of Virginia

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