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If this is actually true, it is yet another consequence of the infamous court decision banning IQ tests in the hiring process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gri
by asciilifeform 18y ago
If this is actually true, it is yet another consequence of the infamous court decision banning IQ tests in the hiring process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Company
Want to know why you had to go up to your ears in tuition debt? That's why. College has become an expensive IQ test. And now, even college is in the process of being watered down into meaninglessness as a qualification.
- tokenadult 18y agoThere is much truth in this reply. I don't know that I buy into the assertion of the late Richard Herrnstein that all employers of ALL kinds of workers would do well to screen job candidates by IQ tests, but the law now in the United States is that they can't. Absent a specific validation study for a specific job, employers have to take care about having hiring requirements with "disparate impact" by ethnicity. Requiring postsecondary education that is not strictly necessary for the job gets a free pass, legally, but requiring a threshold IQ test, even if the threshold is low, is legally suspect. So now indeed many young people who are barely college-ready have to go to some kind of diploma mill college, often at great personal expense, to maximize their likelihood of getting jobs that don't really even require a college education.
- ShardPhoenix 18y agoThat's interesting, I didn't know that about America. I'm in Australia and currently applying for graduate jobs, and every large company I've applied for has made me do one or more pattern completion and/or mathematical and verbal reasoning tests online before even getting to the phone interview stage.