Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?

Re:Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed? by torginus on Monday November 25, 2024 @02:38PM (#42239427)

The thing is, even if performance was Gaussian, even if we run with the following 2 statements:

- IQ is gaussian

- IQ correllates well with performance

hiring practices would probably produce an employee population that went through some right-curve cutoff test, meaning most people would be much closer to the hiring threshold, with a few positive outliers.

For a given arbitrarily chosen values, you could massage the distribution and make it look Pareto, but I'd be hard pressed to come up with a reason why it makes rational sense.

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Re:Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed? by pfooti on Monday November 25, 2024 @04:08PM (#42240229)

Those two assumptions are not particularly well-supported by data or modern thought on capabilities. Even the construct of "IQ" is probably a post-hoc explanation of data rather than a predictive thing. If you want an hours-long discussion of that in the context of the book, The Bell Curve, have a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo

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