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Novelty tee shirts for I/O Psychologists

On November 29, 2005 by Jamie Madigan

A couple of weeks ago I found myself wandering through one of those stores that sells all kinds of novelty tee shirts with pithy, snarky, rude, and otherwise clever sayings. Silly stuff like "I'm with Stupid" or "Bikini Inspector." And I got to thinking that there's a market here that's not being served. Where are the novelty tee shirts for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists? It's a wonder we bother to get dressed at all!

To remedy this, I came up with a list of slogans suitable for tee shirts or maybe the occasional bumper sticker.

Shirts for Everyone

I'm with low g →
I neither agree nor disagree
Subject matter expert
Meta analytic evidence suggests that you should just shut up
Low emotional stability
You've got a criterion problem
More research is required
BFOQ SME ADA CRA EEOC WTF?
Mom says I'm a Type II Error
I cause adverse impact

Snarky Shirts for Single Women Out at Bars

Your confidence interval is too wide
You have a skills gap
"Stupid" seems to be one of your core competencies
Sorry, that position has been filled and I'm not recruiting at this time

Snarky Shirts for Single Men Out at Bars

Beer: increasing measurement error since 1935
Rejected like H₀
Unit weighted
I have high reliability

Shirts for Babies

p > .05 ...MUCH greater
I'm significant at alpha = .05
Corrected for shrinkage

Now, if you laughed at any of those, congratulations --you're a dork! Join the club and feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section.

Existing comments:

Posted by Bryan at December 1, 2005 1:12 PM:

LOL. Other ideas:

I'm an 80% rule violation
My criterion ate my criteria
Always choose option "c"
Hire me--I'm concientous
I've analyzed my job and it lacks content validity
I'll take Chi square to block
Dating you would seriously lower my intra-rater reliability
I'm at the top of Yerkes-Dodson curve
SME ya later
You're why interviews should be structured

Wow. I think I've crossed some sort of I/O nerd boundary.

Posted by Jamie at December 2, 2005 4:58 PM:

Heh. Nice. I like the "Hire me--I'm concientous" one.

Posted by Steve at July 12, 2007 10:54 AM:

Ask me about my Coefficient of congruence

Kolmogorov-Smirnov "On the rocks, please!"

Don't hate me because I am beautiful - hate me because of my KSAO's.

Insured by Schmidt & Hunter

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