Yet opinionated beliefs are not the same as the ability to perform a task. This is why it's important to have democracy to set the agenda, but give the jobs to those who are most capable of doing them.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @Kajel96536401 and
I do not believe that testing for the ability to perform a task without actually observing someone performing the task for real is a trivial task And I believe the idea that one can test *generally* for the ability to "perform tasks" (the g-factor) is false
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Kajel96536401 and
Note that Scott Alexander is actually a big fan of testing by actual performance on a task.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @arthur_affect and
The problem with this is that companies often have hundreds of applicants. If every company has to measure the actual ability to do the job, which often takes days, the costs hiring will explode. 1/2
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @arthur_affect and
One of the major benefits of education is that the cost of testing people is born only once, but that many companies can then very easily check that the person passed those test. That testing is also very extensive (many years long), which...
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @arthur_affect and
offers important information beyond just the ability to do the work, like being able to not be too disruptive, the ability to stick to things long term, etc. These tend to be very important to companies, but they are very hard to check during a brief test.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @Kajel96536401 and
Okay Scott thinks that the existence of four-year colleges as a "social signaling" mechanism is mostly a huge waste of money and time and that our society could be improved if some or all of it were replaced by standardized testing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Kajel96536401 and
He actually supports ways for people to demonstrate their ability without general education or mere standardized testing, like having programmer tests that merely test ability. I thought that you were stalking him, so how come you didn't know?
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @Kajel96536401 and
Arthur Chu Retweeted Aster, internet archaeologist
Scott specifically says he thinks the "discrediting of IQ testing" caused the student debt crisis and if we could include IQ test results in job apps most people wouldn't need to go to collegehttps://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001?s=20 …
Arthur Chu added,
Aster, internet archaeologist @ArsonAtDennysHere are the emails by@slatestarcodex that show he is a racist eugenics supporter. Emails leaked by@TopherTBrennan who deleted their tweets just now. Reposting here. https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.com/TopherTBrennan/status/1362108632070905857 … pic.twitter.com/DfTmV5Ip9BShow this thread3 replies 2 retweets 16 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Kajel96536401 and
He actually supports multiple things. It's almost like he's a complicated person.
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Cool, and I am talking about the things he supports which are terrible, which being "complicated" is not any kind of excuse for (Everyone is complicated, including the people Scott dismisses as simple)
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