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It's a bit more complicated than that. Duke Power Co had an explicit policy restricting its black employees to "labor" positions. It changed its requirements e
by spamizbad 7y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. Duke Power Co had an explicit policy restricting its black employees to "labor" positions. It changed its requirements exactly 1 day after the 1964 Civil Rights Act took effect, and added a mechanical proficiency and Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test to its requirements. The Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test itself isn't a terrible good measure of fluid or crystal intelligence, but it does a good job of measuring how much you remembered from high school... although some of the questions are word problem versions of "How many tablespoons in 2.5 cups" which IMO is just rote crap.
- WalterBright 7y ago> "How many tablespoons in 2.5 cups" which IMO is just rote crap. I'd fail that one today. My high school never taught such things, and I never learned to cook.
- Aeolun 7y agoHopefully because your high school taught you to measure in liters and milliliters?
- WalterBright 7y agoI learned that from a chemistry set I got when I was 10. My high school didn't teach metric, nor really much of anything that I recall.
- ken 7y agoYes, we were taught SI in middle school (and I think even a little in elementary school) -- for a country which would be all SI by the time we graduated. So that was basically the worst of all possible outcomes.
- WalterBright 7y ago> So that was basically the worst of all possible outcomes. Come on. It's not difficult to learn either system. Takes about 10 minutes.
- AngryData 7y agoOr maybe because it makes about as much sense as worrying about converting kilometers into AUs without reference.