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No, because higher social class = access to better learning resources, e.g. tutors, and given everything else equal, better learning resources will lead to high
by axiosgunnar 6y ago
No, because higher social class = access to better learning resources, e.g. tutors, and given everything else equal, better learning resources will lead to higher proficiency at a particular skill, on average. Therefore, if you do not know anything else about a group of candidates, hiring the person from the highest social class is the only rational choice. This study was doomed from the beginning.
- indymike 6y agoYou could rephrase your sentence and replace "higher social class" with race, gender, religion, or member of my favorite club and you'd have the most base -ism ever. This sentence is the root of almost all discrimination. "Therefore, if you do not know anything else about a group of candidates" Then the solution is to know more. Often our stereotypes (higher class) mask deep incompetencies or stop us from a deeper evaluation of the talent. You substitute accent, mannerisms and fashion for evaluating skills, aptitude, experience for the false assumption that in general will rule over the specifics of the candidate pool... which leads to horrible hiring practices, dystopian culture and worse.
- Tade0 6y agoNot necessarily. Some of the most brilliant and hardworking people I know have a background that is anything but "high social class". They are like that because they have something to aspire to. Meanwhile high social class people I've met are generally dependable, but that's about it. Perhaps because they never had an incentive to think outside the box.