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Where are the HN users you're talking about? Promoting using GPA for hiring? That doesn't sound like the anti-higher-education HN I know and love/tolerate :)
by ryanwaggoner 16y ago
Where are the HN users you're talking about? Promoting using GPA for hiring? That doesn't sound like the anti-higher-education HN I know and love/tolerate :)
- Alex3917 16y agoFair enough, a lot of people in general obviously do that though. I guess my point is that I see people posting stuff here all the time that's contradicted by science, but people only call it out on socially acceptable issues. For example, if I had a dollar for every time I saw someone on HN criticizing the methodology of a study they haven't actually read then I wouldn't be doing a startup right now. And yet these posts rarely get downvoted.
- shadowpwner 16y agoIf you don't mind, can you cite an example?
- Alex3917 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068635 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068635
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago7 points is not massive agreement - the first response criticizing this point has more points (as of this writing - it may have been different.)
- jamesaguilar 16y agoWait . . . there is science suggesting that using GPA as a component of hiring leads to bad outcomes? I wouldn't have thought this would be the type of thing that could be studied easily, but I'm always willing to learn.