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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by danieltillett on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:44AM (#16500469)
This approach only works if someone higher up in the education food chain hasn’t already correct for any earlier poor schooling by using some form of “affirmative action” in grading.

The best way of overcoming handicaps based on poor schooling or other social/environmental handicaps is to fix the schooling (hard and long term) or just use g. Of course if you use g you run straight into Spearman’s Hypothesis [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman%27s_hypothesis

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Re:YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asia... by edanm on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:08AM (#16500820)
Of course. My assumption can be stated as: the employer, for whatever reason, sees that empirically the correlation between e.g. GPA and work performance is different for different populations, and therefore corrects it. If the "correction" is done beforehand, then the employer won't see this phenomenon.
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