Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
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It is important to resolve the issue of whether extra infonnation can help assign the probability for failure of a pilot or Naval Flight Officer (NFO) in some phase of flight training. This assigned probability for failure could be based simply on empirical data gathered over some relatively long period of time. However, if scores from selection tests, personality tests, vision exams, psychomotor tests, and the like could serve as cogent infonnation about the probability for failure, then the probability for failure could be revised upwards or downwards based on an individual's standing on these variables. In·addition, it would be interesting to find out if candidates could "trade off" high scores on one class of tests for low scores on a different class of tests, but still achieve the same level of perronnance. Here, level of peIfonnance is defined as the probability for failure. This brings us into contact with the idea of isoperfonnance. In this analysis, we examine two classes of predictor variables where candidates might trade off high scores for low scores, yet still achieve the same level of performance. The ftrst class consists of cognitive infonnation processing variables. Scores for the ftnal academic grade from Aviation Pre-Flight Jndoctrination (API) will serve as an example of this class. The second class consists of personality variables. We will use scores from the Pilot Biographical Inventory (PBI), a subcomponent of the Aviation Selection Test Battery, as a surrogate for scores on personality tests to be administered in future research on isoperrormance.
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