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I'm not aware of it being illegal to use IQ as criteria in hiring in the USA, do you have a source for that? I'm sure the reason it's not done is because it wo

I'm not aware of it being illegal to use IQ as criteria in hiring in the USA, do you have a source for that? I'm sure the reason it's not done is because it would be an extremely bad predictor of success in a job, not because it isn't legal.

bumbledraven 5y ago
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j... : > … in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) [1], … the Supreme Court ruled that intelligence tests, because they were not shown to be directly related to job performance, could not be used in hiring since blacks scored lower on them, and it did not matter whether there was any intent to discriminate. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
ldiracdelta 5y ago
For some reason, there are a few parallel IQ tests that are allowed to continue, despite the Supreme Court ruling against IQ tests. The NFL still uses the Wonderlic test and the US military has IQ tests. If the Wonderlic test did nothing, might not the NFL drop it? As a single number, the IQ test has indeed been found to be a fantastic predictor of the success of a person, despite objections. People hate on it all day long, and perhaps their reasons to hate it are correct, but it remains an extremely useful as a _heuristic_, if you're allowed to measure it. The alternative seems to be 4 years of schooling that saddles the student with crushing and increasingly-crushing amounts of debt. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_General_Classification_Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_General_Classification_Te... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
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bumbledraven 5y ago

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j... : > … in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) [1], … the Supreme Court ruled that intelligence tests, because they were not shown to be directly related to job performance, could not be used in hiring since blacks scored lower on them, and it did not matter whether there was any intent to discriminate. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

ldiracdelta 5y ago

For some reason, there are a few parallel IQ tests that are allowed to continue, despite the Supreme Court ruling against IQ tests. The NFL still uses the Wonderlic test and the US military has IQ tests. If the Wonderlic test did nothing, might not the NFL drop it? As a single number, the IQ test has indeed been found to be a fantastic predictor of the success of a person, despite objections. People hate on it all day long, and perhaps their reasons to hate it are correct, but it remains an extremely useful as a _heuristic_, if you're allowed to measure it. The alternative seems to be 4 years of schooling that saddles the student with crushing and increasingly-crushing amounts of debt. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_General_Classification_Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_General_Classification_Te... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

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