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On the undervaluing of diversity in the validity–diversity tradeoff consideration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2023

Jeffrey Olenick*
Affiliation:
Old Dominion University, Department of Psychology, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Ajay Somaraju
Affiliation:
Michigan State University, Department of Psychology, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
*
Corresponding author: Jeffrey Olenick; Email: jolenick@odu.edu

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