... study, it is very important to understand the accuracy and validity in judgments, which can be illustrated by the moderators of accuracy and inter-rater reliability. Funder has outlined the moderators of accuracy as the 'good judge' 'the good target or person being judged' 'the good trait' and 'good information'. In considering 'the judge', both narcissists (individuals with grandly inflated opinions of themselves) and self-diminishers (who view their contribution as less valuable than they appeared to others) are prone to render inaccurate judgements. Therefore, the 'good judge' is somewhere between these two extremes. In terms of the 'good target', some individuals are more easily judged than others. Some people are closed and enigmatic, while others are as readable as an open book. The most judgeable are those whose behaviour is most predictable, as in 'what you see is what you get' (Funder, 1996). Behaviour of these people is so consistent that ...

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