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I applaud you for your restatement. It is very surprising to me that scoring well on tests is in an indication of job performance. Maybe it has less to do with
by JeremyChase 18y ago
I applaud you for your restatement.
It is very surprising to me that scoring well on tests is in an indication of job performance. Maybe it has less to do with intelligence, and more with the desire for conformity. After all people who do well on standardized tests are often driven in a very conventional path.
- Brushfire 18y agoI would tend to agree. Unfortunately, the one thing that is somewhat above this discussion is the idea of assessing job performance itself. The research I'm referencing links hiring metrics to performance reviews. Clearly, there is something to be said that the items measured in performance reviews might be highly suspect as well, and prone to many forms of bias -- so earlier methods that predict these could actually be just self-fulfilling, not actually a good way to find awesome employees in any particular situation. Again, unfortunately, thats a little beyond the scope here, clearly. In addition, I think that people that did well on standardized tests tend to be for their usage in hiring metrics, and those who didnt but consider themselves successful do not. Bias at work.