> For what it’s worth, human height is also Gaussian, and that’s correlated with workplace success.
Height is generally not considered to be Gaussian and this is exactly the kind of statistics mistake the author seems to be accusing employers of. Adult height is somewhere between Gaussian and bimodal.
Perhaps better stated as "adult human height is approximately Gaussian for a given biological sex", with an asterisk that environmental factors stretch the distribution.
I love the anecdote that people born in the American colonies came back to England to visit family, and were remarkably taller compared to their cousins due to environmental factors.
Height is generally not considered to be Gaussian and this is exactly the kind of statistics mistake the author seems to be accusing employers of. Adult height is somewhere between Gaussian and bimodal.