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0 pointsdragonwriter9y ago0 comments

> I thought that it was potentially illegal to use exams like this to hire, which is why it's convenient to use universities.

Any place where it would be illegal to use this kind of question (at least, for anti-discrimination reasons) it would be illegal, on the same basis, to use university background (or anything else) that acted as a proxy for the same type of questions.

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geebee9y ago

Interesting bit about the law, there... the thing is, they can essentially use universities as a proxy while maintaining plausible deniability, right?

I don't think it even needs to be quite that insidious, it can have that effect even if the employers aren't consciously aware that this is what they're doing.

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