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This sounds like he's tried to make hiring as quantitative as possible (a hard and worthwhile task). However the slices are still as subjective as ever. How do
by Jabbles 15y ago
This sounds like he's tried to make hiring as quantitative as possible (a hard and worthwhile task). However the slices are still as subjective as ever. How do you measure someone's "vision"?
Even when you've measured all these slices, how do you combine them?* Notice that if you take the total area of the pie chart filled, this implies all the scales you're measuring are quadratic, so that going from 8 -> 9 is worth twice as much as going from 4 -> 5. This is why Tufte hates pie charts.
*I assume you combine them. If not, what's the point of the pie chart?
- dcosson 15y agoI was just thinking this - it's saying that how good the candidate is in a particular category counts for more (by a factor of r^2) than how important you have judged that category to be. To me this is the most interesting claim in the article, and it seems like if this were actually what the author was trying to say he would have at least mentioned the reasoning behind it. Not that this is the biggest weakness with the method, since as others have pointed out the assignment of these weights is pretty arbitrary in the first place, but it makes me think this is just hand-waving all the way through.