At risk of sounding like a sore loser, IQ tests, whether or not they are bias, are not a good indicator of success
I wondered if this was actually true, so I did some digging. I'm not saying you're wrong, but here's a fairly recent (in academic time) overview of the research:
Murphy, K. R. (2002). Can Conflicting Perspectives on the Role of g in Personnel Selection Be Resolved?. Human Performance, 15(1/2), 173-186
In case you don't want to buy the article, and can't access it via a library:
There's a lot of evidence that "measures of general cognitive ability represent perhaps the
best predictors of performance".
But the problem is that "racial differences in cognitive ability test scores are known to be considerably larger than racial differences in measures of job performance."
Murphy concludes that "reliance on cognitive ability measures in selection is likely to lead to more efficiency (i.e., higher average performance) and less equity (e.g., disparities in selection rates across racial and ethnic groups)."
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As such, I think giving someone an IQ test at a job interview is a fairly bad idea.
The research I've found suggests otherwise, provided those IQ tests aren't the sole means of making decisions.
I wondered if this was actually true, so I did some digging. I'm not saying you're wrong, but here's a fairly recent (in academic time) overview of the research:
In case you don't want to buy the article, and can't access it via a library:There's a lot of evidence that "measures of general cognitive ability represent perhaps the best predictors of performance".
But the problem is that "racial differences in cognitive ability test scores are known to be considerably larger than racial differences in measures of job performance."
Murphy concludes that "reliance on cognitive ability measures in selection is likely to lead to more efficiency (i.e., higher average performance) and less equity (e.g., disparities in selection rates across racial and ethnic groups)."
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As such, I think giving someone an IQ test at a job interview is a fairly bad idea.
The research I've found suggests otherwise, provided those IQ tests aren't the sole means of making decisions.