Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by closeparen on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:14PM
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I agree with the thrust of what you're saying, but tech jobs are absolutely allocated on the basis of an extremely contrived test (the whiteboard interview).
Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by edblarney on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:51PM
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"extremely contrived test (the whiteboard interview)"
A) That's only the tech world, which is not 'the world'
B) White board interviews are not 'contrived' - they are reasonable. They just are not perfect.
C) I'll bet that whiteboard interviews and academic success are only somewhat loosely correlated.
This is not true.
A) It's ludicrous to wrap 'personhood' and 'identity' out of how well someone is able to study and write arbitrary tests. Completely wrong.
What if some kid learns better visually, than orally? And he's actually much smarter?
What about the kids that are smart, but poor at taking tests?
What about the kids who have massive advantage over others (i.e. tutors) - does that make the other kids dumb?
'In the real world' - there's no such thing as 'someone being better at taking a test' than others. It makes no difference in the 'real world'.