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Adverse Impact Is Far More Complicated Than the Uniform Guidelines Indicate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Rick Jacobs ,
Paige J. Deckert  and
Jay Silva
Rick Jacobs*
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
Paige J. Deckert
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
Jay Silva
Affiliation:
EB Jacobs, LLC
*
E-mail: rrj@psu.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Penn State University, 115 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 558 - 561
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