PATB EOD PROCESSING ETC.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00154R000100070003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 13, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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CONFIDENTIAL
13 July 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General
FROM:
SUBJECT:
PATB, EOD Processing, etc.
1. Another thought on PATB, EOD Processing and all that.
The "new" information that we were given at the meeting was that
the PATB has not been validated for any hiring component other
than CT. The validation for CT makes it permissible to provide
"raw" scores. Lack of validation for other components makes us
susceptible to law suits if we provide "raw" scores.
It seems to me that there is a serious flaw in this logic.
First, if in fact there is no validation for other components, we
probably should not be using the tests at all! Second, if we do
use them, we would be on far safer ground in providing "raw"
scores described as ojective measures of performance relative to
some norm than in providing the narrative analyses and
predictions of likely performance which have no underlying basis
of statistical analysis.
3. Maybe we should change our recorrmendation to suspend all
use of PATB other than CT until validation studies have been
completed. At least maybe you should dangle this threat over
head.
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