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The Bell Curve cites studies that say that raw IQ is the single best predictor of future job performance, higher than experience, interview, and everything else
by JeffL 19y ago
The Bell Curve cites studies that say that raw IQ is the single best predictor of future job performance, higher than experience, interview, and everything else.
Too bad it's illegal to give IQ tests as part of the interview process. I think that's partially why the brain teasers have become so popular.
Though I do agree with you that you'd be right to laugh at someone who claims you should hire him simply because of an IQ test. They should also be motivated and interested in that line of work, otherwise I would imagine the intelligence would be wasted.
- mynameishere 19y agoToo bad it's illegal to give IQ tests as part of the interview process. Taking a follow-the-money approach to these questions, it's worth reflecting that a 15 minute IQ test can give a rough idea of a candidate's quality. Compare that to the 4 year, 6-figure process of getting an Ivy League degree--Harvard, et al, is against any shade of genetic determinism not so much from liberalism as self-interest. Why obsolete themselves? From the article: [After listing obviously false rebuttals of Watson...] I wish these assurances were true. I wonder why. If you showed proof of genetic proclivities toward certain kinds of muscle and nerve structures associated with athleticism, and then showed that blacks have some preponderance of the same...how many of them would throw themselves at the feet of Thomas Jefferson's tea-tax-related rhetoric and weep that "It just can't be so...all men are equal!" Zero. Not everyone was taught to abase themselves.
- pius 19y agoWasn't the Bell Curve discredited years ago?