An Empirical Comparison of ρα and ρm As Indices of Rater Policy Agreement

was made that the policy of a judge in a typical rating situation be defined by his least-squares regression equation. This definition is possible whenever the judge bases his ratings of a series of n stimuli on k known and quantifiable characteristics or traits (Xi). One of their main reasons for approaching judgment policies in this manner was to introduce a new method of expressing agreement or similarity between different judges’ respective policies. Perhaps the most traditional method for grouping raters has been