leniency error

Leniency error: Error based on the panellists opinions of the researcher/s.

This method eliminates central tendency and leniency errors but still allows for halo effect errors to occur.

This reduces leniency errors.

The most common types of error are leniency errors, central tendency errors, and errors resulting from the halo effect.

Other terms include superiority bias, leniency error, sense of relative superiority, the primus inter pares effect, and the Lake Wobegon effect (named after Garrison Keillor's fictional town where "all the children are above average").