The tendency to assign similar scores to items that are near each other on a questionnaire is called
A) harshness bias.
B) similarity bias.
C) proximity bias.
D) central tendency.

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Proximity bias refers to the tendency of evaluators to assign similar scores to items that are close to each other on a questionnaire, influenced by their physical proximity on the form.

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