Re:What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know
by gambiting on Friday February 15, 2013 @01:07PM
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What is the point that you are trying to make? If somebody did not know how to read or write, they were not a suitable candidate anyway, and that's not discriminatory against illiterate people, like looking for someone with a maths degree is not discriminatory towards people without one.
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Re:What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know
by noahc on Friday February 15, 2013 @01:35PM
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I don't think you know what the word "discriminatory" means:
Adjective Making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things.
You may say that it is not practical to not be discriminatory. You can also say that it is not immoral to be discriminatory. Both of those may or may not be true.
However, it is certainly discriminatory to use a test that is biased towards educated white men with college degrees and access and time to read newspapers.
Re:What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know
by gravedave on Friday February 15, 2013 @09:09PM
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Yes it is, if you're hiring them for shoving shit around. If you hire for an engineering position (what was this Edison guy doing anyway?), then those fancy writing and math skills and whatnot might be quite necessary.