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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is literally illegal where I live. There's a few exceptions like airline pilot, police or firefighter, but besides that it's considered discrimination.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It makes sense to have specific skill, ability and knowledge tests as appropriate. Like having a written and road test to get a driver license.

    But these overall comprehensive "personality" or "cognitive" tests are blatently unethical.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    You are correct, especially about personality. Personality is a very very complex multidimensional construct. The only way we can sort of say someone has a specific stable personality is through a statistical mechanism called latent profile analysis. Even then, that is for figuring out general profiles in the population, not the individual.

    What we typically do is look at either personality facets or profiles and do experiments to see how they moderate or mediate different effects such as job performance, well being, turnover intentions, etc.

    If you want to look at the best scientifically valid personality assessment I'd suggest the HEXACO. There is no bullshit astrology, it's all just psychology and math.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Which isn't surprising to me. I personally am not a fan of cognitive ability testing because of that exact problem. There is too much adverse impact to justify it. A simple structural behavioural interview gets you about the same predictive power with far fewer drawbacks.

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