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>(The weakness of this study is we didn't follow up with people. We only knew if our candidates got hired, not how well they did after they were in the door, as employees. So we might have just been mirroring the same biases the companies themselves have in their hiring processes.)

Kudos for the self-awareness but like others have pointed out, cmon.

This obsession with quantitative scoring for tests is a great example of a cargo cult science because you are doing all of these intricate little rituals that amount to nothing because you're simply measuring latent social phenomenon of hiring like-minded people. It's just statistically-laundered-bias.




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