Researchers studying organizational hiring found that resume reviewers asked to spend more time on each application made decisions that more closely matched candidates' actual job performance, but the time-restricted reviewers expressed greater confidence in their judgments. Both groups, when surveyed afterwards, believed they had made well-considered decisions; only the careful reviewers' decisions actually predicted performance outcomes.
Which inference is most strongly supported by the passage?
- Acheck_circle
The subjective experience of having decided well can occur even when decision quality is lower
- B
Resume review is unrelated to actual job performance under any conditions
- C
Time-restricted reviewers consistently outperformed careful ones
- D
Self-reported confidence in a decision reliably tracks the decision's accuracy
Explanation
Both groups felt they decided well, but only one group's decisions tracked outcomes — supporting B. A contradicts the finding; C reverses it; D ignores the careful-reviewer correlation.