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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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