"people don't want to be accountable to a numerical score for their hiring decisions" could you elaborate this theory? People want to be seen as responsible for who gets hired, even if that picks lower quality people?
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People want leeway to hire people based on criteria they may not want to admit explicitly (such as subjective liking.) Rubrics make that harder.
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That is a really good observation. It’s also generally illegal and opens up a company to discrimination lawsuits unless they run a a study proving the test correlates with performance in the specific job.
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Title VII of the Civil Rights act, as (over)broadly interpreted by the Supreme Court, makes using an aptitude/intelligence test not "reasonably related" to the particular job for which the test is required legally risky due to racial disparate impact. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co ….
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