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Forced Error: When an opponent hits a difficult shot that causes the player to miss. As opposed to the unforced error

Forced Repetitions: Assistance to perform additional repetitions of an exercise when muscles can no longer complete movement on their own.

Forced Ranking: A performance appraisal system where raters are asked to identify a certain percentage of employees who are top performers ready for advancement and those employees falling into the bottom p . . . View Full Definition

Forced Wave: A wave generated and maintained by a continuous force.

Forced-Choice: In test construction, used to define multiple-choice tests or questionnaires requiring the testee to choose an answer from a collection of possible answers. Also refers to a performance appr . . . View Full Definition

Logic Error: An error that the computer never notices, but that you notice because your darn program doesn't do what you want it to do.

Gross Error: Gross errors are undetected mistakes that cause a measurement to be very much farther from the mean measurement than other measurements.

Forced Distribution: An appraisal rating method intended to prevent rater errors by requiring the rater to force ratings into a bell-shaped curve.

Error Rate: In many cases, it may be acceptable if an input device generates a certain number of errors. This is often referred to as the error rate and the acceptable level will vary according to the i . . . View Full Definition

Error Of Standards: Occurs when a rating is assigned based on impracticable standards established by the rater.