Credibility and Justification of Pyschometric Tests

[tantric_yogi]

How is it in software industry ... what do you think of ability of large companies to justify their staff appointments based partly if not entirely on psychometric tests? Observations/Tests as conducted and practiced by psychologists, I believe to be theoretical and esoteric in nature are not relevant in today's working environment ... I think.

Edit: I was reading of huge payouts to women in court cases related to sex based work harassment (selection process) in the US. I just happen to wonder, how much of this had to do with psychometric tests conducted by highly regarded psychologists these companies employ/hire?

Edit 2: Is it too heavy a topic to tackle? :D I am su saaurri.

[Jija]

shanti se vacation enjoy karo na,kyon sar kha rahe ho.

[tantric_yogi]

Originally posted by Jija
shanti se vacation enjoy karo na,kyon sar kha rahe ho.

ROFLMAO :D There is much to learn. Knowledge for free and you don't have container to hold it in ... pity!

[vakil sahib]

as am employer who was also once an employee i can see things from both sides.

my conclusion is this- psychometric tests are crap!:D

they were introduced ostensibly to make the selection process fair by introducing a "scientific" element, which, in itself, was thought to be a better way of selecting employees than the good old fashioned method of "gut feeling".

in truth psychometric tests are used by employees to sus out prospective employess before they take the plunge. they would subject hapless employees to these tests and then determine that they were, say, latent homosexuals who also suffered from the oedipus complex:confused:

no, when dealing with human beings there is no substitute for the old gut feeling.

[tantric_yogi]

Originally posted by vakil sahib
my conclusion is this- psychometric tests are crap!:D

they were introduced ostensibly to make the selection process fair by introducing a "scientific" element, which, in itself, was thought to be a better way of selecting employees than the good old fashioned method of "gut feeling".

in truth psychometric tests are used by employees to sus out prospective employess before they take the plunge. they would subject hapless employees to these tests and then determine that they were, say, latent homosexuals who also suffered from the oedipus complex:confused:

no, when dealing with human beings there is no substitute for the old gut feeling.

Vakil Sahib, are you sure ... I mean about the gut feeling part? Gut feeling is good old psychology ... noh? ;) lol

Problem, I think is psychologists and their inability to comprehend the women!

Psychologists will argue that these tests optimise the "fit" between the job and the seeker! These tests are designed to perform necessary chore of "predicting" applicants (from senior most executive level to manual workers) who are likely to perform better than others ... EXCEPT ... psychologists CAN NOT assess if the candidate is actually CAPABLE of doing the JOB! Key words here are CAPABLE, DESIRE and ABILITY TO PERFORM.

In other words ... low performance on tests does not necessarily mean below average performance on the job or inability to do the job and this is where women are having hard time getting in.