There is extensive research showing that more educated people tend to have more extreme beliefs than the less educated, suggesting that education increases rationalization ability, rather than correctness, or else the beliefs would narrow towards the truth. 1/2
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @Kajel96536401 and
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 @NotoriousAapje and
Testing and teaching are not the same. IQ tests are deeply eugenicist and racist at their core and by design.
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Replying to @digiwonk @arthur_affect and
When I was at high school, it was already quite obvious to me that a large percentage of the exam grades were determined by generic abilities.
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When you were in high school, your observation of your fellow students' capacities compared to your own was of course well-informed, unbiased, and generally accurate
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