Re:God's Lonely Programmer
by btilly on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:18PM
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Any company is in the position to do it (or pay to have it done)...
Wrong.
In order to be in a position to do it, you need to start with a sample of many thousands of people being hired into a specific kind of job, all of whom have been given the test in question, and all of whom are then judged by standardized metrics. ONLY THEN can you collect enough data to make strong statistical inferences on this issue.
The military can meet this threshold. Very, very few private employers can. And claiming otherwise is wrong.
...the expected utility of general intelligence testing, even where any such benefit is rationally expected to be born out, is pretty low compared to more specific job-focused alternatives that are also easier to demonstrate are job related if they have a disparate impact.
I do not believe this to be the case for most entry-level jobs. Can you cite specific research indicating otherwise?
Wrong.
In order to be in a position to do it, you need to start with a sample of many thousands of people being hired into a specific kind of job, all of whom have been given the test in question, and all of whom are then judged by standardized metrics. ONLY THEN can you collect enough data to make strong statistical inferences on this issue.
The military can meet this threshold. Very, very few private employers can. And claiming otherwise is wrong.
...the expected utility of general intelligence testing, even where any such benefit is rationally expected to be born out, is pretty low compared to more specific job-focused alternatives that are also easier to demonstrate are job related if they have a disparate impact.
I do not believe this to be the case for most entry-level jobs. Can you cite specific research indicating otherwise?