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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by emodendroket on Sunday April 09, 2017 @06:26PM (#14074671)
That feels a bit like saying we should just stick to blood letting and leeches because we don't know any more effective way of treating disease. Just because we don't have a superior alternative doesn't actually mean the current method is effective.
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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by RugnirViking on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:36AM (#14078363)
A)

Leeches are often used in literal modern hospitals in the developed world as an effective treatment for certain ills.

B)

If we had no alternative, we should stick to it, but look at other things in the meantime. You seem to be advocating doing nothing at all, which is trivially easy to show works for no-one

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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by emodendroket on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:41AM (#14078412)
Yes, leeches have extremely limited use. However, bloodletting and leeches killed far more people than they ever "treated."
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