We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

Re:We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2... by Majora320 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:54PM (#15595118)

Except that isn't how statistics work. If you have 100 applications, 20% of which are good, and drop 50% of them, you get 50 applications, but you still have the 20% good application/bad application rate.

Of course, you still get 50% less total good applications, but ratios != total.

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Re:We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2... by drzaiusapelord on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @02:38PM (#15595481)

If there are 10 'good' hires in the initial pile, then cutting out 5 arbitrarily lowers your chance of getting any one of those 10 by half instantly.

This is what I was trying to express. At the end of the day there are only so many 'good' applicants.

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Re:We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2... by Majora320 on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @01:44AM (#15599041)

Sure, but usually you don't want to hire _all_ of the good applicants - the reason you get bad hires is the false positive rate, not because there aren't enough total good hires in the pile.

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