A. Encouragement of cooperative studies. The agencies issuing these
guidelines encourage employers, labor organizations, and employment
agencies to cooperate in research, development, search for lawful
alternatives, and validity studies in order to achieve procedures which
are consistent with these guidelines.
B. Standards for use of cooperative studies. If validity evidence
from a cooperative study satisfies the requirements of section 14 of
this part, evidence of validity specific to each user will not be
required unless there are variables in the user's situation which are
likely to affect validity significantly.
