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Re:John Oliver on the ugly state of credit reporting and bac... by BurningFrog on Monday April 11, 2016 @02:33PM (#11473979)
It seems more likely that the people making hiring decisions for a living do these checks for jobs where it turns out they're useful.
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Re:John Oliver on the ugly state of credit reporting and bac... by dikdik on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:04PM (#11475094)
Unfortunately, they have not been proven useful. The credit reporting agencies do sell it to companies as "useful" to measure a candidate's integrity and ability to succeed. However, if you watch John Oliver's segment you will see at least 1 agency testified under oath that they have no evidence to back up their claims.

All it can be said to do is to weed out poor people or conversely allow terrible employers to pinpoint candidates that they can easily abuse because they are so far in debt.

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Re:John Oliver on the ugly state of credit reporting and bac... by BurningFrog on Thursday April 14, 2016 @03:46PM (#11499781)
Most things people do have not been proven useful scientifically.

That is very different from being proven useless.

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