This is, yet again, a very bad nontechnical journalistic writeup of much more technical research. "Whiteboard coding interviews" are not what was studied--the

This is, yet again, a very bad nontechnical journalistic writeup of much more technical research. "Whiteboard coding interviews" are not what was studied--the terms the actual study uses seem to be "public" versus "private" interviews, and the finding was that public interviews tested ability to handle anxiety (not stress, as some commenters are misidentifying) rather than coding ability. Critically, both forms of interview studied are whiteboard interviews. The Register's writeup is inaccurate worthless crap, demonstrating either incompetence or dishonesty on the part of the authors. Let's try to link to original studies in the future.