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David Farnell

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I’m on a hiring committee at my uni every year. We have a multipoint quantitative screening procedure that is pretty obviously an exercise in CYA. It shows we “measured their merit.” To some extent it does, but we could measure it just as much, much faster, w/o the procedure.

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Linda Holmes's avatar Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social
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I think those things can be helpful, to be honest, as one element of a process. Obviously incomplete, but given the biases that seep in when people hire by “feel” or “fit,” I think it’s worth trying to put pressure on your own measurements. But yes, it’s inexact in the extreme.

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