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RE: PepsiCo Wants Robots To Conduct Their Interviews

in #business7 years ago

The problem here isn't that the expert system isn't capable of weeding through statistics, it is that people are trained not to judge. And, if you can't judge, then you can't make good calls about business interactions.

Long ago IQ tests were outlawed from hiring practices.
And IQ is the single best indicator about how well someone will do.

Soooo, you get a computer to give a questionaire that measures general IQ levels and attributes on the big 5.

And, all of this is inside a black box. It is a computer program. It doesn't have biases, so it won't play favorites. And thus, it gets around the legalities when hiring. Humans could do this just fine, if they weren't hamstrung by legal issues.

So, if Pepsi wanted bottling line workers, they want people with an IQ between 85 and 100 who are high in conscientiousness. Any person fitting that criteria will do well in those positions. Too high of IQ and the person would be board. Too low and they aren't trainable. Too low in conscientiousness and they wont be attentive to the process.

The computer does what the person cannot.
It is a sad world we live in.