Accuracy: Assumptions and Debates

• what is the "criterion"?
• does it exist?
• confounds of accuracy (response bias, stereotype accuracy)

Funder et al.: Agreement as proxy for accuracy

• S-O agreement
• O-O agreement
• ruling out some alternative accounts to "realistic" interpretation:
  1. overlap (observational basis)
  2. communication (construction)
  3. similarity + projection (accidental accuracy)

Swann & Gill: Accuracy vs. Confidence

• Basic concepts and relation, Oskamp
• Swann's hypothesis:
  relationship length & commitment --> richness of representation --> confidence (but not accuracy)
• methodology:
  • prediction of X from Y
  • within- vs. between-dyad accuracy indices

Haynes & Dunning: Agreement and Trait Ambiguity

• predictors of (dis)agreement
• ambiguity makes room for self-servingness
• methodology:
  • two indices of agreement (correlation, direction)
  • traits as units of analysis