> That's because in the past, the IQ tests were not fair, objective and colour-blind, but were set up in such a way as to bias against poorer people (which will be mostly black in the USA). This isn't true at all. They haven't been shown to be biased, merely that blacks score lower. Extensive research has show that IQ tests have equal predictive power for blacks and whites. "Disparate impact" merely means that blacks score lower, not that the tests are biased. > This is easy to do with IQ tests, just ask lots of questions that require good schooling and education (e.g. word questions). The black-white gap is as large or larger on tasks that require very little education, e.g. "reverse digit span", which merely requires that you repeat a sequence of numbers in the reverse order from the direction you heard it. > and has hence probably improved equality. I've never understood why eliminating one of the few objective measures and making the hiring process entirely subjective was an improvement.
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