Sexual Bias in Interest Measurement

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Abstract
Bias in interest testing occurs if tests are used to encourage an individual to consider, enter, or reject an occupation or type of ocupation on the basis of an irrelevant variable, sex. Bias may occur in items, scale construction, scale selection, scale norming, and in reporting scores. Popular current interest inventories were divided into two groups, externally referenced and internally constructed, and were used to illustrate potential bias. In general, the externally referenced inventories, which reflect the current state of affairs and have well established predictive powers, have the most potential for sexual bias. Additional research was suggested.

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