Meta-analyses reveal little or no systematic relation between age and job performance, with a meta-analytic correlation of 0.06¶

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q3 i? McEvoy & Cascio's meta-analysis found age-performance correlations ranging from −0.44 to +0.66 with a meta-analytic estimate of 0.06. → Salthouse 2012

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Salthouse 2012¶

Salthouse, T. (2012). Consequences of Age-Related Cognitive Declines. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 201-226. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100328

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Review of meta-analytic research on age and job performance. The review reports that "a meta-analytic estimate of 0.06" with a wide confidence interval, and that little evidence of moderation by performance measure type or job type was found.

"McEvoy & Cascio (1989) found the correlations between age and performance ranged from −0.44 to +0.66, with a meta-analytic estimate of 0.06 and a 95% confidence interval from −0.18 to +0.30"

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