From: Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Date: Tue Jul 22 1997 - 20:51:02 MDT
N.BOSTROM@lse.ac.uk wrote:
>
> ... As far as I know, it is
> actually not legal in the USA to use IQ-like tests in hiring
> decisions, unless that specific test has been specifically proven
> to be a reliable predictor of the specific task the man is hired
> for.
Unfortunately, I don't think that there is any such generic law.
There is a recent trend to use "graphology" as part of the
hiring decision. Graphology is a pseudoscience whose practioners
claim to be able to determine personality traits of the writer
of a handwriting sample, based not on the words but on how the
letters are formed. We also use lie detectors, even though
studies have shown them to be completely unreliable.
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