When Janet Reams started her new job at Chrismer and Park Company, her supervisor was told that Janet had scored higher than any other applicant on the qualifying examination. After several weeks on the job, Janet's performance was excellent and far superior to others who had started work at about the same time. Her supervisor was later told that there had been an error and that Janet had scored about average on the qualifying exam. Janet may have benefited from ________.
A) a knowledge-of-predictor bias
B) a similar-to-me bias
C) the luck of the draw
D) the perceiver's knowledge base

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Janet may have benefited from a knowledge-of-predictor bias, where her supervisor's expectation of her high performance based on her initial test score influenced their perception of her performance.

When Janet Reams Started Her New Job at Chrismer and Park