I don't think the barrier to more companies using IQ proxy tests in interviews is that nobody's ever built one. I think it's another example of "optimizing for illegible discretion"; people don't want to be accountable to a numerical score for their hiring decisions.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1110626143575502848 …
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
"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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Replying to @robinhanson
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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Replying to @s_r_constantin @vgr
Ah yes, which is also why I see low interest in using decision markets to choose hires, in academia or elsewhere. I do think there's also an effect of wanting it to seem like your judgement is influential in hiring decisions.
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1) Lots of companies do “IQ proxy tests” in the form of take-home exercises/HackerRank etc. 2) Not clear to me why you’d ever want to use *only* standardized tests to make these choices. Most operators can vouch that this would be disastrous.
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Replying to @nabeelqu @robinhanson and
In practice you need to measure lots of different things (not just intelligence; drive, optimism, ability to work in teams) & then synthesize. Which is what most people do anyway. IQ proxies would be strictly worse.
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Agreed on the object level -- you should care about character, not just test performance, and for programmers it's better to give realistic programming problems than generic standardized tests.
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