My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted

Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by spamizbad on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:45PM (#35889905)

Sure, but is that causal? For example, maybe there's some other factor (like SES) that's driving both. And switching to IQ tests doesn't really solve the problem, as your avenues for cheating on that are identical to LC.

You could probably screen candidates based on the question "Did any of your parents go to college? And if so, did they study or work in a STEM field?" and be roughly as predictable.

(This is terrible and you shouldn't do this)

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by peterfirefly on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:35PM (#35890637)

We know for a fact that it is IQ that is driving SES and not the other way around.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by mrguyorama on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:05PM (#35891939)

What evidence do you have for this claim? You are suggesting SES is a meritocracy around IQ.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by _dain_ on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:38PM (#35893869)

identical twins reared together vs apart, their IQs correlate more with their twin's than with the SES of the adoptive family.

high quality studies have found that the additive heritability of IQ is somewhere around 0.8-0.9, that's just totally incompatible with parental SES as the primary upstream cause. it's simply not debatable (and it wasn't debatable ten years ago either; this is hardly new knowledge)

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by throw9away6 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:25PM (#35890489)

Yeah but hiring companies don’t care. Same as these interviews that they do have some correlation to success maybe no better than iq

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