On the Distribution of Job Performance: The Role of Measurement Characteristics in Observed Departures from Normality

In a recent article, O'Boyle and Aguinis ( ) argued that job performance is not distributed normally but instead is nonnormal and highly skewed. However, we believe the extreme departures from normality observed by these authors may have been due to characteristics of performance measures used. To address this issue, we identify 7 measurement criteria that we argue must be present for inferences to be made about the distribution of job...