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IQ tests as part of the hiring process aren't illegal in the US, but they aren't used because it puts the company at risk of discrimination lawsuits. The valid
by gogurt2000 2y ago
IQ tests as part of the hiring process aren't illegal in the US, but they aren't used because it puts the company at risk of discrimination lawsuits.
The validity of IQ tests is debated and their history is checkered: they've been used by eugenicists and racists to support their views and statistically minorities under perform on them.
It's not hard to imagine someone purposefully writing an "IQ test" that's racially biased by focusing on things that wealthy white men know. An infamous example from the SAT in the 70's (and allegedly used later as well) that favors those familiar with rowing (aka: "crew"), a largely Ivy League sport:
RUNNER: MARATHON
A) envoy: embassy
B) martyr: massacre
C) oarsman: regatta
D) horse: stable
So it's fine if hard tech interviews are actually trying to assess your IQ, but if they're racially biased it's a problem.
- jazz9k 2y agoSo there is no way to know about rowing unless you are wealthy and white?
- defrost 2y agoIn the context of the 1970s ... The Oxbridge UK and US Ivy league rowing shell sport was largely confined to wealthy private schools and universities and uncommon outside those domains. To "know" about the sport in detail you either had to take part, be adjacent, make a study of the behavioural activities of that class, or read a lot of Agatha Christie et al literature that referenced the sport. Rowing shells has been part of the Summer Olympics since 1900, the argument can be made that the working class prior to widespread TV broadcasts didn't get a lot of Olympic exposure. There were other ways of stumbling into an exposure but they weren't exactly commonplace. Rowing a boat with oars was common across the globe.
- Gabriel54 2y agoThe SAT is not an IQ test.
- draw_down 2y ago[dead]