From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Wed Jul 23 1997 - 16:13:02 MDT
Eric Watt Forste wrote:
>
> Robin Hanson writes:
> > The claim is that I would be arrested for placing my IQ score on
> > my resume? Similarly for putting "Mensa" under org memberships? I
> > find such claims hard to believe.
>
> I believe the claim Carl was referring to is that employers who
> routinely used such scores or organizational memberships to qualify
> or disqualify job applicants could be sued and fined for illegal
> discrimination in employment. I have no idea whether this is the
> case, but this claim seems much more plausible to me than the
> one you were thinking of.
>
Then there is the past year's hiring at Boeing, where Boeing announced
that they would hire several thousand people back, but only those who
passed an aptitude test that Boeing developed...
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