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If we're going to have a discussion about ending the requirement for a college degree or other seemingly arbitrary job requirements we have to understand why co
by Consultant32452 8y ago
If we're going to have a discussion about ending the requirement for a college degree or other seemingly arbitrary job requirements we have to understand why companies seek those things. The answer is that companies want to hire smart workers. It's fine to suggest that the degree requirement is wasteful, but I don't think we can expect employers to stop using that metric if we can't offer a better one. IQ is already something employers are looking for, even if they use coded language like "smart" or "problem solvers." Let's at least make it explicitly legal for them to ask for it.
I'm not going to suggest that there's absolutely no bias in the IQ tests themselves, but we've come a long way with them, and they're certainly going to be less biased than the average human who is hiring. Your IQ has no race or gender.
- Nav_Panel 8y agoI didn't mention anything about "ending the requirement for a college degree", my claim was that IQ does matter but other features matter just as much, and a college degree turns out to be a solid proxy for _many_ of those features. I also did not claim that the IQ test itself was biased. I'm not quite certain which of my claims you're responding to.
- Consultant32452 8y agoI'm responding to the actual context of this entire thread, not attempting to make a point by point rebuttal to anything you said. If IQ isn't the only thing a college degree is a proxy for, that just means we'd need to offer companies even more than just IQ test if we want to remove the college degree requirement.