"... ratings were apparently affected by a marked tendency to think of the person in general as rather good or rather inferior and to color the judgments of the qualities by this general feeling" (Throndike, 1920, p. 25)
"... unable to treat an individual as a compound of separate qualities and to assign a magnitude to each of these in independence of the other" (Thorndike, 1920, p. 29).
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Thorndike, E.L. (1920). A constant error in psychological ratings. *Journal of Applied Psychology*, *4*(1), 25–29. <https://doi.org/10.1037/h0071663>
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