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Queensland University of Technology defends removing 'merit' from hiring policy
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Neutrion:

--- Quote from: .RC. on November 28, 2023, 02:35:01 am ---So I take it the Vice Chancellor will be standing down so she can be replaced by someone who is far more qualified.

By qualified I mean someone who is disabled,  identifies as a gender other then male and female, who also identifies as coming from a disadvantaged area, extra points awarded if it is determined  by a committee of specially selected lefties people who identify as human as having "suffered" at the hands of some more powerful country when they were a child.

So at this point in time, going by what I read on the news, she would be replaced this week by a genderless, disabled person from Gaza who specialises in rocket science or underground mining geology.   :-DD

After all they have to lead by example right?

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:D

Good points, but in your list the analfabets would still be underrepresented. And having an analfabet quota based on the Australian population would be utterly racist.

And regarding the white guys on the picture it is horrendous to see you all calling them men....
How do you know? You might offend them! I recommend Queensland University to also implement new clothing standard, which makes it possible in any season the genitalia and a 17cm circle around it to be clearly seen. This would make these offenses less likely! (And would have other positive social effects which miss Sheil doesn't have to know about.)

But to be a bit more serious, there was an interesting study which one of the german state TVs also made a documentary about recently. Without the editors actually understanding the broader implications I think. They found that people were able to estimate other peoples intelligence levels by the look of a single picture. And the experiment was really well made. ALL the participants with different ages and gender were able to do it. I would really like to see more studies into this. It tells me that my gut feelengs regarding some are actually correct. If we are talking about being "biased" towards people.
The "bias" it seems could be actually quiet correct.


 


coppice:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on November 28, 2023, 01:13:01 pm ---Well, that's what you get when you let a leftist through your door. They shame you for who you are, send you on reeducation camp, or get you fired. Set up camp, and make policies like this.
Never hire an identity politician, they are truly the most toxic employees, and what their policies are doing is in fact illegal.


--- Quote from: audiotubes on November 28, 2023, 11:10:07 am ---
--- Quote from: Bud on November 28, 2023, 04:18:42 am ---the Pareto rule is about to change from "20% people doing 80% work" to "5% people doing 95% work."  :-X

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I'm pretty sure the 5/95 rule has been in effect for several decades already :(

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It's called Price's law, and for large organizations it's much worse than 80/20 or even 95/5.

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80/20 comes from the Pareto distribution. Price's law says half the results are produced by the most productive square root of the workforce. The two things are related, but not the same. Pareto is basically what happens when you have a statistical distribution with one end clipped. For example, there is no practical limit to how rich someone can get, but if poverty leads you to starve to death you are out of the game. Simulate the statistics of that and you will find you get more and more people out of the game, and a few winners taking all. If you just slightly nudge the destitute back into the game using a minor tax on the big winners you can massively even things up. If politicians could actually follow a statistics course they might act very differently.
Bud:

--- Quote from: Neutrion on November 28, 2023, 05:31:05 pm ---They found that people were able to estimate other peoples intelligence levels by the look of a single picture.

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IBM first meeting Bill Gates:
"We were waiting in the front, and this young fella came out to take us back to Mr. Gates office. I thought he was the office boy."
 ;D
coppice:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 28, 2023, 01:38:03 am ---As the title says:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-17/qut-defends-removing-merit-from-hiring-policy/103114562

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There have been a spate of books in the last couple of years decrying merit. They seem kinda wacky, until you read how they are defining merit. They are using it mostly as a synonym for credentials, rather than any concept of merit the general public would recognise. Huge numbers of credentialed people are pretty useless, so there is a lot of merit in the argument in these books, using their weird dictionary.
coppice:

--- Quote from: Bud on November 28, 2023, 05:55:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Neutrion on November 28, 2023, 05:31:05 pm ---They found that people were able to estimate other peoples intelligence levels by the look of a single picture.

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IBM first meeting Bill Gates:
"We were waiting in the front, and this young fella came out to take us back to Mr. Gates office. I thought he was the office boy."
 ;D

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That may have more to do with his look of youth than his apparent IQ. Also a lot of business people are not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed, so they might lack this ability to get a good estimate of intelligence.
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