Han believes that all his employees do a good job.When he gives performance appraisals,he rates everyone as "average" because he thinks that doing a good job is an average rating.In reality,several of Han's employees are excellent and several are below average.It appears Han is making a ______ error in his performance appraisals.
A) recency
B) contrast
C) attributional
D) distributional

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Han is making a distributional error because he is not accurately representing the range of performance levels among his employees. By rating everyone as "average," he is not differentiating between employees who are truly average and those who are performing above or below average.

Han Believes That All His Employees Do a Good Job