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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by icebraining on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:55AM (#15463530)
You don't see the huge selection bias in that study? They're interviewing people that were hired despite the discrimination that already exists. It's like trying to see if alcohol leads to more crashes by only interviewing people in intact cars.

It may be that overqualified workers don't in fact leave sooner - or it may be that the hiring manager correctly identified those who would and wouldn't, and only hired the latter. By studying only the people already hired, it's impossible to tell.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by phaemon on Friday October 13, 2017 @05:36AM (#15464225)
Edit: original response was too harsh. I'm just grumpy I guess.

The study was done properly. Have a read of: http://today.uconn.edu/2010/08/over-qualified-not-really/ which provides better detail.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by icebraining on Friday October 13, 2017 @06:06AM (#15464338)
Thanks, but I don't see how that link contradicts my objection. Can you point me to how they're tracking the workers that didn't end up being overqualified because they were excluded by the hiring managers?

From what I can tell, they tracked the jobs they took, but not the jobs they were denied for, so I don't see how they could've accounted for the selection bias.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by phaemon on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:19AM (#15464650)
That's because the selection bias you are asking them to account for is based on the psychic abilities of hiring managers. Even if it exists, it doesn't matter because there are still people hiring overqualified people and it only makes sense to talk about those in this context.
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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by icebraining on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:44AM (#15464765)
Either the effect exists or it doesn't, and you need to show that it doesn't if you want to claim that discriminating based on overqualification is not effective. And that study doesn't show that - it only shows that overqualified candidates that hiring managers thought wouldn't leave soon don't leave soon.
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