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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by JoeAltmaier on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:49PM (#23370734)
Its also not even inefficient. Jet pilot courses reject people for arbitrary reasons. Because they have a limited number of jets, and a surfeit of applicants. At some point you 'weed out' even good applicants, if you have more than enough of them.
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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by epylar on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:54PM (#23370772)
Surely you could use a random number generator to do this?
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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by thatfunkymunki on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:18PM (#23372826)
I generally support this- as a FAANG employee I sometimes think an RNG would be a much better signal than a lot of our interview voodoo. At least then we wouldn't be hiring unlucky people!
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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by pasquinelli on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:17PM (#23370922)
That would be nice, because it wouldn't leave rejected candidates thinking they did something wrong. The whims of a panel of interviewers isn't necessarily different from an rng anyway.
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