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>> You could mostly just give people an IQ test as part of your hiring process Not allowed. Griggs v. Duke Power Co. "What Congress has forbidden is giving th
by rufus_foreman 3y ago
>> You could mostly just give people an IQ test as part of your hiring process
Not allowed. Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
"What Congress has forbidden is giving these devices and mechanisms controlling force unless they are demonstrably a reasonable measure of job performance. Congress has not commanded that the less qualified be preferred over the better qualified simply because of minority origins. Far from disparaging job qualifications as such, Congress has made such qualifications the controlling factor, so that race, religion, nationality, and sex become irrelevant. What Congress has commanded is that any tests used must measure the person for the job and not the person in the abstract."
So I guess under that decision, they considered IQ tests as measuring the person in the abstract.
- eru 3y agoEh, that decision hasn't hindered companies too much in practice. Eg software companies still give you 'programming problems' that are essentially badly designed IQ tests in disguise. If I remember right, Bryan Caplan addresses this court case in his book already.
- rufus_foreman 3y ago>> software companies still give you 'programming problems' They've had to come up with all these ridiculous interview techniques when a simple "what's your IQ" would suffice.