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no. 'disqualifies you from job interviews' only applies in very few cases. obviously there will be some discrimination overall, but it's not a serious reason to avoid Germany.

I think the persistent poor performance of certain large immigrant groups certainly is an important issue. It is also true that part of this underperformance may have a genetic cause.

Re:How Poverty Taxes the Brain on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:00PM (#6302848)
the cognitive performance between rich and poor was the same in the sample they looked at (using their specific test). we know that is not true in general -- richer people are smarter on average.
Re:How Poverty Taxes the Brain on Friday August 30, 2013 @12:54PM (#6302796)
why downvote this? the rational response to yet another psychologal 'priming' study is extreme scepticism.
Re:How Poverty Taxes the Brain on Friday August 30, 2013 @10:26AM (#6301916)
it might be interesting once it is independently replicated several times.
the idea that an "arab/turkish name" disqualifies you from job interviews is dishonest nonsense. it's also quite separate from sarazin's book, which raises some important issues.
Re:Universities Go in Big for Big Data on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @07:51PM (#6293408)
I don't think most people working with R and python for data analysis are doing 'Big Data'.
Re:He got 1%, we can't hire him on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @10:48AM (#6290318)
100+k only really applies for people who work in finance... it's pretty hard to crack 60-70k as a salaried employee.
Re:A/B Testing Duration Data on Sunday August 25, 2013 @05:45PM (#6273847)
you can still use a t-test for non-normal data...