On 08/03/12, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> > I found out that its the office of affirmative action that says we can't
> test
> > candidates...
> 
> What do you mean, can't test candidates?

this is a fairly common policy.  anti discrimination laws basically say that
any generic test of intelligence must 1) be cognitively meaningful and 2) not
be biased along racial/gender group differences. 

since just about any cognitively meaningful test will yield racial/gender
empirical outcomes given our background society/culture, a lot of companies and
HR folk have decided the combination of those two rules, when combined with the
lack of any means of proving that your test is valid, and not racist or sexist,
means they don't want to go anywhere near this issue. 

so blanket bans on tests like that are fairly common.

-Chris

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