Rater accuracy as a generalized ability

Abstract

To see if those people who can most accurately estimate their peers' performance on an objective criterion are also those who can most accurately rate their peers on carefulness, 236 basic airmen estimated the scores their peers made on a vocabulary test. Then they rated their peers on carefulness, and all Ss took 5 carefulness tests. All 5 of the carefulness tests correlated higher with the ratings assigned by airmen who most accurately estimated their peers' vocabulary scores than they did with ratings assigned by the airmen who least accurately estimated their peers' vocabulary scores. These results were interpreted as a demonstration of the generalizability of rating accuracy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)