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Perspectives from 22 countries on aspects of the legal environment for selection are presented in this article. Issues addressed include (a) whether there are racial/ethnic/religious subgroups viewed as “disadvantaged,” (b) whether research documents mean differences between groups on individual difference measures relevant to job performance, (c) whether there are laws prohibiting discrimination against specific groups, (d) the evidence required to make and refute a claim of discrimination, (e) the consequences of violation of the laws, (f) whether particular selection methods are limited or banned, (g) whether preferential treatment of members of disadvantaged groups is permitted, and (h) whether the practice of industrial and organizational psychology has been affected by the legal environment.

The time in which to press a key and the video retrace interval were measured under various conditions of MS-DOS, Wmdows 3.1, Wmdows 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. Allthe measurements were obtained with the same program running on a single Pentium 300 computer. In all, samples of 1,000timing measurements were obtained in each of 96 different conditions. Standard deviations of the times ranged from about 0.0006 msec under DOS 6.22 to almost 40 msec under Windows 3.11, representing an increase in timing error of up to 6,000,000%. Researchers requiring millisecond timing accuracy are recommended to use DOSonly.

The personality characteristics of rock and popular musicians were examined in a sample of 100 musicians who completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and a questionnaire about musical background and experience. Profile analysis revealed that rock musicians share a common profile of high Neuroticism and Openness to Experience, average Extraversion and low Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. No background factors such as instrument played, type of music performed, time spent playing, level of musicianship or commercial success moderated this finding. These results are compared with previous research on classical and rock musicians.