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>this false-negative is an unfortunate casualty of the process I wouldn't call it a "false negative" if your recruiters are completely incapable of filtering c
by madamelic 9y ago
>this false-negative is an unfortunate casualty of the process
I wouldn't call it a "false negative" if your recruiters are completely incapable of filtering correctly.
It's a false negative if someone has an off day. It is an error in your hiring process if it purposefully filters out people who get their hands dirty and can talk nuance.
- dmoy 9y agoThey mean false negative from a statistics point of view, which is what this literally is (if we take the author's assumption that they're qualified at face value). A false negative is an error in the process.
- waisbrot 9y agomadamelic is saying that the described interview process would select against qualified candidates because some of the items on the answer sheet are flat-out wrong. Analogy would be if we were evaluating a blood-pressure drug, but our BP-measurement cuff was miss-calibrated and all readings were -10 from reality.
- skj 9y agoAnd all examples in question would be labeled "false negative"s.