Ian, Cameron and I asked for examples of questions that could be culturally biased (because neither of us could really find any from the Google). Dana replied in kind with 2 examples.
The problem is that Dana stated that one of the questions she posted (whether or not to report a drunk fireman while he is on duty) had a 'cultural bias' because some 'cultures' see that as 'ratting out' and when I asked how that is a problem with the question and not the person she claimed I was calling them 'terrorists' and/or 'welfare cheats'. Its the typical liberal bullshit. As soon as you poke holes in their arguments, they throw shit like that out. I stand by the fact that the question being discussed (whether or not to report a drunk fireman while he is on duty) can show if a person has the right values or brains to be an firefighter. If they did not like 'ratting' out a fellow firefighter for being drunk on duty, than this person should not be on the job as their values are a danger to the public and their fellow firefighters. If they were stupid enough to say, on a test, they would not report a fellow firefighter for being drunk on duty, well, then their stupidity is a danger to the public and their fellow firefighters. In my mind, this is a perfect question to help determine values and brains. Any 'culture' whose beliefs and values are OK with putting people's live at risk to avoid 'ratting out' one of their own is a culture whose members should maybe not be in emergency services. Is that so hard to understand? On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ian Skinner<[email protected]> wrote: > > Scott Stroz wrote: >> WTF? > > Here is the problem I see. Scott you seem to want the exact question(s) > that disqualified this test due to a cultural bias. The trouble is that > we don't know what the exact questions are. All Dana tried to do was > give some **hypotetical* *examples of how a question could be > interpreted differently. She did not try to justify this example as one > that would cause the test to be invalid. Just at how culture can cause > unexpected results in a test. > > I don't think anybody has ascertained if there where questions that > disqualified this test or not. Just that the test was very suspicious > based on the results and should be investigated. The trouble seems to > be that instead of letting the results of this test stand and just > analyzing the questions for future improvements to the test if > unnecessary cultural bias was found. The threw out the results which > hurt the prospects of those who had passed it. > > Now I also return to my duties. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299359 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
