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Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz... by bryanrasmussen on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:08PM (#39348897)
maybe I'm cynical but I think it's selecting for moderately or reasonably dishonest, the dishonesty of the median. I think you'd have to be extremely honest to think huh, this is an absolutely bullshit test that if I answer honestly on just this part here means I won't get the job I want (assuming that you are only bad on a single metric) but I am going to answer honestly no matter what.

Hmm, but maybe they have that baked into the test!? If you slightly fail one of the bad metrics and none of the others they rate you super honest and hire you immediately! Science says we should definitely try to figure this out.

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Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz... by bluefirebrand on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:01PM (#39349643)
> maybe I'm cynical but I think it's selecting for moderately or reasonably dishonest, the dishonesty of the median

I feel like that's accurate. After all, I did describe it as "fairly" dishonest, not "very" or "extremely" dishonest.

Lying on personality tests is definitely an average, socially expected amount of dishonesty.

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Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz... by bryanrasmussen on Monday February 12, 2024 @07:38PM (#39352709)
OK I had read fairly as being significantly above average, thus my response.
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