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Anyone know what font is used in that article? It's beautiful. > Further, we measure the quality of the individuals who apply for the job through a battery of

Anyone know what font is used in that article? It's beautiful. > Further, we measure the quality of the individuals who apply for the job through a battery of personnel selection tests that capture cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability and relevant work experience. These tests are reliable predictors of work performance and are used by firms worldwide (Heckman et al., 2006; Autor and Scarborough, 2008; Hoffman et al., 2015).2 > We use the Raven and Stroop tests for cognitive ability (Schmidt and Hunter, 1998). For non-cognitive skills we administer the Big-5 personality test and the Grit scale (John and Srivastava, 1999; Duckworth et al., 2007). Does evidence really exists that these tests are predictive?

Cyph0n 9y ago
To answer your question about the font, I think it's the same font used by the current ACM LaTeX template. The font is called Linux Libertine[1]. [1] https://www.dafont.com/linux-libertine.font https://www.dafont.com/linux-libertine.font
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- jacobolus 9y ago
  This is very obviously wrong. Just look at the letters.
  - Cyph0n 9y ago
    Again, it was just a quick guess. I have a terrible eye for these kinds of things :P
wavefunction 9y ago
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tex-gyre-pagella https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tex-gyre-pagella I opened the PDF in Acrobat and looked at the document properties, which has a font tab with the embedded fonts. As a bonus it's apparently a free font.
- aaronchall 9y ago
  Thanks for doing the dirty work. This gets an upvote, and everyone else gets the opposite until this is the top comment.
amelius 9y ago
You could use e.g. WhatTheFont to find the font. https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
jacobolus 9y ago
The font is Palatino (or some shameless Palatino clone). The lowercase t and a (among other letters) are very distinctive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino Hermann Zapf was one of the master type designers of the 20th century.
- surfmike 9y ago
  Very close, the font is TeX Gyre Pagella which was based on URW Palladio L, which was itself designed as a Palatino replacement.
  - jacobolus 9y ago
    That's one of the shameless Palatino clones, of which there are several. They're all basically indistinguishable, all inferior to the original metal version, and all ethically dubious. (Exactly copying someone's years-long labor of love and then slightly changing the name and redistributing it as a new product might be the norm for some type foundries, and the precise legal questions are murky, but it's pretty scummy.) If you want to ethically typeset something in Palatino, try Palatino Nova. https://www.linotype.com/615716/palatino-nova-family.html https://www.linotype.com/615716/palatino-nova-family.html
aaron695 9y ago
> Does evidence really exists that these tests are predictive? Currently IQ is considered the best predictor. If you have two applicants around the same IQ but one has higher conscientious then it could be a decider in a company, but why is it needed in this study I can't see. No idea how good Raven and Stroop tests are for predicting IQ?

Cyph0n 9y ago

To answer your question about the font, I think it's the same font used by the current ACM LaTeX template. The font is called Linux Libertine[1]. [1] https://www.dafont.com/linux-libertine.font https://www.dafont.com/linux-libertine.font

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jacobolus 9y ago
This is very obviously wrong. Just look at the letters.
- Cyph0n 9y ago
  Again, it was just a quick guess. I have a terrible eye for these kinds of things :P

wavefunction 9y ago

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tex-gyre-pagella https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tex-gyre-pagella I opened the PDF in Acrobat and looked at the document properties, which has a font tab with the embedded fonts. As a bonus it's apparently a free font.

aaronchall 9y ago
Thanks for doing the dirty work. This gets an upvote, and everyone else gets the opposite until this is the top comment.

amelius 9y ago

You could use e.g. WhatTheFont to find the font. https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

jacobolus 9y ago

The font is Palatino (or some shameless Palatino clone). The lowercase t and a (among other letters) are very distinctive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino Hermann Zapf was one of the master type designers of the 20th century.

surfmike 9y ago
Very close, the font is TeX Gyre Pagella which was based on URW Palladio L, which was itself designed as a Palatino replacement.
- jacobolus 9y ago
  That's one of the shameless Palatino clones, of which there are several. They're all basically indistinguishable, all inferior to the original metal version, and all ethically dubious. (Exactly copying someone's years-long labor of love and then slightly changing the name and redistributing it as a new product might be the norm for some type foundries, and the precise legal questions are murky, but it's pretty scummy.) If you want to ethically typeset something in Palatino, try Palatino Nova. https://www.linotype.com/615716/palatino-nova-family.html https://www.linotype.com/615716/palatino-nova-family.html

aaron695 9y ago

> Does evidence really exists that these tests are predictive? Currently IQ is considered the best predictor. If you have two applicants around the same IQ but one has higher conscientious then it could be a decider in a company, but why is it needed in this study I can't see. No idea how good Raven and Stroop tests are for predicting IQ?