Jacinta,a production manager at Alphonso Inc.,needs to evaluate the performance of her employees.She asks her subordinate,June,to carry out this job.June uses a rating scale,which ranges from 1 to 10,to rate 50 employees.She gives a score of 3 to 39 employees.In doing so,June commits the _____ error.
A) mean inclination
B) strictness
C) central tendency
D) halo effect
E) statistical error

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Raters make distributional errors when they tend to use only one part of a rating scale. The error is called strictness when the rater favors lower rankings. In this scenario, June commits a strictness error.

Jacinta,a Production Manager at Alphonso Inc