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Surely most employers use IQ which varying degrees of effectiveness? I expect in most settings IQ 100-140 is very hard to guess from an interaction. Harder if
by psychphysic 3y ago
Surely most employers use IQ which varying degrees of effectiveness?
I expect in most settings IQ 100-140 is very hard to guess from an interaction. Harder if there is a specific field being assessed where someone has experience/training.
But everyone will pick up IQ <90 almost immediately and that's not even necessarily abnormally low just borderline.
- Shaanie 3y agoBy proxy, yes, but not directly and there's a big difference.
- psychphysic 3y agoI'm not sure there is. IQ is just an aptitude score, it's far more objective and unbiased than an interview.
- tarboreus 3y agoI think you're not understanding. Direct IQ tests for employment are illegal in the US.
- psychphysic 3y agoWhich means it goes to subjective interviews where racism is known to be a factor. Why have an objective test for what you want when you can introduce subjectivity and racism for the same goal? It's the American way.
- User23 3y agoBut IQ tests are also racist which is why they're illegal for most employers. What legal non-racist policy do you have in mind?
- psychphysic 3y agoIQ tests aren't racist lol they aren't sapient. How could a piece of paper be racist.
- tptacek 3y agoNo they're not.
- User23 3y agoDe facto they are, mostly[1]. The corollary that there exist jobs where intelligence isn't pertinent is perhaps somewhat baffling to common sense, but then the law often is. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
- tptacek 3y agoHuge tech companies have used the Wonderlic IQ test as recently as the last 10 years. Somebody here, if this thread isn't moribund, can chime in to say which; I'm not saying. There's a meme that IQ tests are a powerful hiring tool that have been suppressed by political correctness or gunshy HR departments, but the real reason they're not ubiquitous is that they're not fit for purpose.
- psychphysic 3y agoMore accurately, you can simply adapt the IQ test overall and end up with a "situational judgement test". Which is better. Ultimately that can be used to accurately predict an IQ test, and vice versa. Same with MCAT, or any other "aptitude" test.